While working there, he had licensed a library of compounds from two European scientists whose work on viruses had grabbed his attention.

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He designed a screen for drugs that might block SAP and ran it against 100, 000 compounds in Roche's chemical library.

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Synta, on the other hand, uses the same basic approach that drug companies have used for centuries: taking a library of thousands of chemical compounds, and testing those compounds one by one in the lab until something seems to work.

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In Fujifilm's library of 200, 000 chemical compounds, some 4, 000 are related to anti-oxidants.

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