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About the Drug Discovery Zone
Scientists are coming up with new treatments for diseases and illnesses all the time, many of which will be a new drug. Discovering a new drug could start from many places: modifying the structure of old drugs, studying organisms that cause disease to find weaknesses, computer modelling of completely new molecules, testing what compounds found in nature can do, and some drugs are even found completely by accident.
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In this zone, you will meet one scientist making cancer drugs out of sugar, one looking at how to kill bacteria using viruses and another searching for bacteria on ants to make antibiotics with. There is also a scientist who is making new medicines to cure a disease caused by parasites, and another working on new ways to treat things like eye disease and cancer.