Abstract:Chemical biology is a multidisciplinary field that uses chemical tools to investigate biological research questions and harnesses biological tools to advance chemistry. Although the research philosophy of chemical biology is by no means new, it has distinguished itself from classical biochemistry and biological chemistry by the use of exogenous chemistry to interrogate or modulate biological function. In contrast, biochemistry and biological chemistry tend to use standard molecular biology approaches to unders… Show more
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