123 School Work

The biggest event

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  The biggest event of the British racing calendar is the
  Grand National, run every April by such a large number
  of horses that most punters who know their game steer
  well clear of trying to pick a winner. It's a spectacle,
  rather than a good place to do business. Faced with a
  rather similar overabundance of choice, every month, in
  our Highlights section, we seek to turn the spotlight
  onto the best recent papers in drug discovery, briefly
  and simply explaining their findings and relevance.
  Hopefully, our methods for picking papers are more
  rigorous than those of the average tipster. So how do we
  choose what to highlight?
  It is hard to define what limits to set to the field of
  'drug discovery'.With practically every other paper in
  biomedical science containing the almost obligatory
  final sentence suggesting the therapeutic relevance of
  the molecule or system under study, it sometimes seems
  that almost everything falls within this remit. Clearly,
  even those studies that seem unrelated to drugs might
  impact the discovery of new therapeutics in some
  unforeseen way. Certainly, papers published across a
  wide array of journals, on many different topics, form
  the backdrop to the discovery of new drugs. Our task is
  to sift out those studies that are actually most likely to
  advance the process, rather than those that indicate
  with biologists, and the success rate of taking those candidates
  into studies in humans is likely to improve only if
  clinicians and basic scientists are talking the same language...