You cannot understand biology by killing it Written byBree Foster, PhD

You cannot understand biology by killing it Drug discovery still relies on destroying cells to understand how they respond, but new real-time measurement approaches are beginning to reveal biology in motion rather than in snapshots. Written byBree Foster, PhD https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/you-cannot-understand-biology-by-killing-it-17159 Modern drug discovery is built on a paradox. To learn how living systems respond to intervention, we routinely destroy them. Cells are lysed, fixed, stained, sequenced, averaged, and reconstructed after the fact. This gives us a snapshot of what the cells were like before and after, but tells us very little about what happened in between.