It is important during drug development to study how candidate compounds get absorbed and broken down biologically. (science.sciencemag.org)
But to date, only a handful of candidate compounds have made it to clinical trials, says Fenical. (sciencemag.org)
After school and on weekends for two years, Delgado measured how much antibiotic the organisms pumped out and how much was needed to kill them off after exposure to diosmetin and other candidate compounds. (discovermagazine.com)