Nowadays a typical client hires one of Kalexsyn's 32 chemists on a weekly or monthly basis to produce a vial of organic compound--assuming the molecule can be built.

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Among their projects: developing a hybrid anticancer compound that combines an antibody with a cancer-targeting small molecule and using algae to quickly grow human antibodies that zero in on herpes.

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If a lot of chemistry work has to be done later and what we put in development is not the original compound, then we take the IP in case the same molecule can be used in a commercial environment.

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