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Drug Discovery

Covalent drugs go from fringe field to fashionable endeavor

Designing molecules that make bonds with their biological targets is in vogue

by Bethany Halford
November 9, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 43
A structure of the drug ibrutinib.

Credit: RCSB PDB/Yang H. Ku | The drug ibrutinib makes a covalent bond to Bruton's tyrosine kinase, an important cancer target.

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