Paving the path towards precision medicine
21 March 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A method to view the immune cell 'landscape' of bowel cancer tumours could pave the way towards more individualised medicine and treatment...
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Machine-learning model to analyse protein sequences
14 March 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
A machine-learning model has been developed to analyse protein sequences, giving an insight to their structure, function and phylogeny...
Potential EBV-associated cancer treatment in small molecule inhibitors
7 March 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
A small molecule inhibitor has been observed to activate a dramatic reduction in tumour growth in EBV-associated tumours...
Anthelmintic drug niclosamide repurposed to treat Helicobacter pylori
5 March 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
Researchers have repurposed use of niclosamide to treat Helicobacter pylori cell lines, focusing on how it is effective in infection models...
Genomics to match treatments to pancreatic cancer patients
4 March 2019 | By Nic Losardo (Drug Target Review)
Genomics could be used to match drugs to patients better, with these genetic signatures also giving an earlier insight into detection of the condition...
Protein marker in response to brain cancer therapy
1 March 2019 | By Fraser Owen (Drug Target Review)
An extremely powerful MRI scanner was used to image proteins in the brain of cancer patients and has shown that protein content correlates with treatment...
Colon cancer pathway discovery could lead to targeted therapies
28 February 2019 | By Nic Losardo (Drug Target Review)
Researchers have pinpointed a set of enzymes involved in tumor growth that could be targeted to prevent or treat colon cancer...
Counteracting T-cell exhaustion in CAR-T cancer therapies
27 February 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
Engineered T-cells that target NFAT and Nr4a proteins could help to prevent the exhaustion of T-cells during CAR-T immunotherapy...
Secret life of antimicrobial peptide revealed through CRISPR
26 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Antimicrobial peptides were found to act against Gram-negative bacteria and certain fungi by working either together or by adding up their individual effects...
Book mechanism identified as communication method for bacterial toxins
25 February 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
Researchers have identified the mechanism by which highly toxic compounds communicate, and how they use vesicles to be transported...
MRI sensor to image activity deep inside the brain
22 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review
A method of imaging calcium activity that is based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could help to image deep within the brain...
Taking a BiTE out of lung cancer
22 February 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)
Bispecific T-cell engager technology (BiTE) could be used to quickly and accurately diagnose patients suffering from lung cancer...
Gene therapy to reduce deafness in mice
21 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Gene therapy has been used to restore hearing in an adult mouse model of DFNB9 deafness, one of the most frequent cases of congenital genetic deafness...
Fighting HIV using anti-cancer immunotherapy
21 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review
Researchers have used immunotherapy treatments, ordinarily used to treat cancer, to reveal the virus in the cells of people living with HIV...
How the immune cell ‘Iron Man’ helps T-cells fight infection
20 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review
The Iron Man of immune cells, the CD4 cell, has been found to help T-cells fight viral infections, with a lack of these cells often leading to illness...
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