By <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/organic-synthesis-the-robo-chemist-1.15661#auth-1">Mark Peplow</a> -<br><br>The race is on to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound. It could transform chemistry.<br><br>In faded photographs from the 1960s, organic-chemistry laboratories look like an alchemist's paradise. Bottles of reagents line the shelves; glassware blooms from racks of wooden pegs; and scientists stoop over the bench as they busily build molecules.<br><br><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/organic-synthesis-the-robo-chemist-1.15661">READ MORE ON NATURE</a>
