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From the Ted Talk by Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

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And so we started to work on this problem. We developed libraries of _________ and __________ arrived at this and similar substances called JQ1. Now, not being a drug company, we could do certain things, we had certain flexibilities, that I respect that a pharmaceutical ________ doesn't have. We just started mailing it to our friends. I have a small lab. We _______ we'd just send it to people and see how the molecule _______. We sent it to ______, England, where a group of talented crystallographers provided this picture, which helped us understand exactly how this molecule is so potent for this protein target. It's what we call a _______ fit of shape complementarity, or hand in glove.

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  1. industry
  2. compounds
  3. behaves
  4. eventually
  5. thought
  6. perfect
  7. oxford

Original Text


And so we started to work on this problem. We developed libraries of compounds and eventually arrived at this and similar substances called JQ1. Now, not being a drug company, we could do certain things, we had certain flexibilities, that I respect that a pharmaceutical industry doesn't have. We just started mailing it to our friends. I have a small lab. We thought we'd just send it to people and see how the molecule behaves. We sent it to Oxford, England, where a group of talented crystallographers provided this picture, which helped us understand exactly how this molecule is so potent for this protein target. It's what we call a perfect fit of shape complementarity, or hand in glove.

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