Engineering synthetic genetic codes

大型、高质量的新药库是寻找新药的绝对必要资源。然而，它们的使用仅限于少数制药巨头。我们将对细胞进行工程改造，以制造各种各样的类似药物的聚合物，为几乎任何科学实验室提供药物发现资源。由于每个细胞都可以制造不同的聚合物，因此在一个试管中可以生产出数十亿种不同的潜在药物。这项技术提供了一个机会，将药物发现的未来交到更广泛的科学界手中，并为澳大利亚工业提供了新的工具。

Large, high quality libraries of new drugs are absolutely essential resources to find new medicines. However, their use is restricted to a few pharmaceutical giants. We will engineer cells to make a wide variety of drug-like polymers, providing a drug discovery resource accessible to almost any scientific laboratory. As each cell could make a different polymer, billions of different potential drugs could be produced in a single tube. This technology provides an opportunity to put the future of drug discovery in the hands of the wider scientific community and new tools for Australian industries.