Martin Burke Proposes Billion-Dollar Project to Synthesize Most of the Known Organic Natural Products

Martin Burke proposes billion-dollar project to synthesize most of the hundreds of thousands of known organic natural products in search of new medicines. The effort, which would harness an automated synthesis machine he and his colleagues developed to snap together molecules from a set of premade building blocks, could cost $1 billion and take 20 years, Burke estimates. But the idea captivates the field. Science Magazine Article