Scientists hope that they will discover useful new drugs and pesticides.

But she'd never made it that far, discovering drugs and prostitution somewhere along the way instead.

He discovered hard drugs in the mid 1960s, an obsession that would remain with him for many years to come.

The myth is that pharmaceuticals make their money discovering new drugs - which benefits Everyone.

"The only thing that matters in this business is the ability to discover drugs," he said.

Would researchers need to discover new drugs for every single patient?

Even companies trying to discover new drugs have felt pressure to license products that are already on the market, or close to it.

Of course the town's young people have discovered drugs.

"What we are good at is discovering drugs and developing drugs," he said.

The old ways of discovering drugs simply weren't working, he said in an interview.