There are a huge number of techniques in the protein world that relay on tying down some binding partner onto some kind of solid support. When you’re talking about immobilizing proteins, that’s one thing – they’re large beasts, and presumably there’s some tether that can be bonded to them ...

There’s been a big trend the last few years in the industry to try to build our molecules up from much smaller pieces than usual. “Fragment-based� drug discovery is the subject of many conferences and review articles these days, and I’d guess that most decent-sized companies have some sort o...