13.1.2 - Lead Discovery
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Practice Questions
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What is a lead compound?
💡 Hint: Think about a candidate drug.
Name one source of natural products in drug discovery.
💡 Hint: Where do we find our medicines?
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What is the primary goal of lead discovery?
💡 Hint: Focus on what happens before clinical trials.
True or False: High-throughput screening allows researchers to test compounds rapidly.
💡 Hint: Think about the speed of testing new drugs.
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Challenge Problems
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A new research team is tasked with discovering a lead compound for a rare disease. Describe how they might use combinatorial chemistry alongside high-throughput screening to accelerate their research.
💡 Hint: Consider how both techniques complement each other.
Imagine a scenario where traditional medicine leads to a breakthrough in modern drug discovery. Detail how historical knowledge might influence the identification of a lead compound.
💡 Hint: Think about the connection between past and present in drug discovery.
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