{
  "id": 19487375,
  "title": "Finding new life in old chemicals for pharmaceuticals using light-driven chemistry",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/finding-new-life-in-old-chemicals-for-pharmaceuticals-using-light",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-11T11:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-life-chemicals-pharmaceuticals-driven-chemistry.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Drug companies maintain large libraries of chemical compounds that can be screened for potential use in the development of new pharmaceuticals. One class of these compounds, sulfonamides, is used in antibiotics and in drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, hypertension and inflammation. Thousands of these sulfonamides exist in these libraries, but their use beyond their initial purpose is limited…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}