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      • In 1906 Ehrlich prophesied the role of modern-day pharmaceutical research, predicting that chemists in their laboratories would soon be able to produce substances that would seek out specific disease-causing agents. He called these substances “magic bullets.”
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  1. It was the first magic bullet - a chemical that could cure people of syphilis. Why were magic bullets significant? Salvarsan 606 was a key breakthrough. It led to research into other...

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  3. The magic bullet is a scientific concept developed by the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich in 1907. [1] While working at the Institute of Experimental Therapy ( Institut für experimentelle Therapie ), Ehrlich formed an idea that it could be possible to kill specific microbes (such as bacteria), which cause diseases in the body, without ...

  4. May 12, 2008 · One hundred years ago, Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His postulate of creating 'magic bullets' for use in the fight...

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  5. The first magic bullet was fired at syphilis on this day in 1909. Although specific diseases responded better to some drugs than to others, before the early 1900s development of Salvarsan, an...

  6. German biochemist Paul Ehrlich (18541915) developed a chemical theory to explain the body’s immune response and did important work in chemotherapy, coining the term magic bullet. Ehrlich received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908.

  7. Mar 11, 2004 · Ehrlich's prodigious talents in the laboratory — he was called a virtuoso of test tubes — were matched by a combination of intuition and deduction that marked him as a genius. He was the...

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