They call it “#skeletal #editing” and they hope it will change their field – and our world.
Inspired in part by the revolutionary genome-editing technology #Crispr-#Cas9, Levin and Sarpong are among a handful of chemists developing new methods to #insert, #delete and #swap individual atoms within molecules.
The word “editing” evokes chemists altering atoms with pairs of nanoscopic tweezers, but that would be far from efficient. “If you wanted to make a mole,” Levin explains, referring to a unit of measurement used in chemistry, “you would have to take that pair of tweezers and do it 10^23 times.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/05/skeletal-editing-chemistry-molecule-atom-medicine-drug-development-sustainable?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other