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Blue light breaks long-standing chemistry rule, unlocking 3D drug building blocks

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For more than a century, pharmaceutical companies have relied on flat structures called aromatic rings, which can help drugs bind to target sites in the body. They include benzene rings and other flat, nitrogen-containing rings.

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