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At its core, the Molecule Maker Lab is revolutionizing how we discover and make small molecules—those critical chemical compounds that impact our health, energy, environment, and economy. Powered by a new intellectual architecture for the process of small molecule synthesis, dubbed blocc chemistry, in concert with automation and AI, MML allows anyone—from students to citizen scientists—to design and synthesize functional small molecule that address societal challenges.

Why does this matter?

Small molecules, the type of chemical matter primarily built from carbon-carbon bonds, comprise many of our best medicines, materials, fuels, and countless other everyday products. But until now, the process of synthesizing these molecules in the lab was highly artisanal, and thus slow, expensive, and limited to expert chemists. Blocc chemistry is a new way to make small molecules which is simple, iterative, modular, and general. This makes is very friendly to automation, AI, and you! 

The MML is harnessing the power of blocc chemistry to democratize the process of small molecule innovation—making it faster and more accessible through the use of AI-guided robotic synthesis and a growing collection of high quality modular chemical data that feed a new chemical language that is friendly to AI. The latter has recently yielded a new type of large language model, dubbed the modular Chemical Language Model (mCLM), that can operate like a ChatGPT for chemistry. For more information, please refer to the following scientific publications fully referenced below (Science 2015, Nature 2022, Science 2022, Nature 2024, Science 2024, Nature 2024, ChemRxiv 2025, rXiv 2025).