In a recent report found in the Journal of Molecular Recognition there is a new report that there appears to be a development that could greatly change the way that drugs are created and researched in the lab. The new research shows that a tech innovation called Lab on Bead could be used as a tool to diagnose the effectiveness of new chemicals by decorating them with nano beads – beads so small, in fact, that 1,000 could be fit across the width of a single human hair. The beads will contain tiny pins that were created to join the DNA data codes of different drugs to diseases they are meant for. This will enable those in the lab and doing research to be able to match drugs with disease in just one step and that will speed up the discovery of effective new drugs by a whopping 10,000 times. This is a massive step forward because it allows for the infinite combinations of various elements such as carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen to form various shapes that each react differently with cells in the body.

According to Jed Macosko, an associate professor of Physics at the Winston Salem, North Carolina campus for Wake Forest University, these combinations of elements can block a huge number of different things. This could lead to whole new ways to both cure and block diseases in a far faster format. In a sense, the new tech will act as a hunter and hone in on various disease associated cells so that new drugs can be tested just on the cell to find out how effective they really are.