Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415359 | Methods and systems for the identification of components of mammalian biochemical networks as targets for therapeutic agents Systems and methods are presented for cell simulation and cell state prediction. For example, a cellular biochemical network intrinsic to a phenotype of a cell can be simulated by specifying its components and their interrelationships. The various interrelationships... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7089168 | Language for networks Presently described is a formal language for describing the function of biochemical networks. Because it is a language, it includes a method of parsing, or understanding the language, which is a highly complex recursive algorithm. This formal language, the Cell Lang... | 08/08/2006 |