These categories of smell are both very recognizable and very strongly linked to certain chemistry — sulfur compounds for garlic, ammonia compounds for fish — which made them particularly tractable.
We left the riverbed and walked down an alleyway between compounds for about 50 yards.
Recycling old compounds for new uses is far cheaper – and faster.
Traditionally pharmaceutical companies test hundreds of thousands of compounds for so-called "target binding" in the hunt for new blockbusters.
A spokeswoman for Novartis said the company was not studying Gleevec or related compounds for their coloring effect.
Such differences could lead to the identification of drug compounds for improved healing in heart disease, as well as other types of ailments and injuries, the researchers said.
Mr. Carr's company, Amersham, produces sophisticated equipment used to help drug-company chemists screen millions of compounds for a potential reaction that could halt disease.
Like other artificial mouths, it mixes in artificial saliva in proportions that match real mouths, and uses inert helium to withdraw volatile compounds for measurement.
Celgene, based in Warren, N.J., said it planned to move three new Signal drug compounds for cancer and inflammatory diseases into clinical trials soon.
Dr. Gregory T. Servetas, an obstetrics and gynecology doctor in Trumbull, said he often prescribed specific compounds for hormone replacement for his customers, referring them to Mr. Roberge.
MOLECULAR MIXOLOGISTS Philosophy Strictly speaking, molecular mixology refers to the application of science to the bar, and the use of stabilizers and other compounds for surprising effects.
