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Drug discovery and development scientists spend a lot of time wondering if their candidates are getting across the right membranes, or trying to get them to do so. Think about what happens when you take a pill containing a small-molecule drug that needs to get to an intracellular target: it dissolves in the stomach and/or small intestine, and then has to make it across into the bloodstream from the inside of the gut.
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