Water's Vital Role in Drug Discovery - Stage 1: Target Identification

Pinpointing the cellular pathways associated with diseases and the ‘druggable’ targets that may be used in their treatment is the first step in developing new medicines. Cell labeling experiments and cellular assays used in target identification require some of the highest levels of water purity. Proteomic approaches, based on highly sensitive liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques, are increasingly being used to identify protein targets.