From Poppies to Heroin: A Brief Role of Morphine in the Early Days of Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry (also known as medical chemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry) is a branch of science which brings together chemical research about synthetic and natural compounds with medical findings about the human body's pathophysiological response to such compounds. On a broader level, medical chemistry combines chemical synthesis of compounds that display biological activity with information gained from computational biology, enzymology, molecular biology, and physiology to facilitate discovery of therapeutic drugs for treating human disease.



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