by Doug Bennett, University of Florida Credit: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c01771 Building a new precision cancer treatment comes with no shortage of scientific challenges. Now, a group of University of Florida researchers have made a significant discovery in the effort to develop potent, highly targeted chemotherapies for breast and other cancers. Scientists at The Herbert Wertheim...
by Amy Norton, Healthday An experimental antibody drug that targets one of the body’s key metabolism regulators may help obese people lose weight—at least briefly. That’s one finding from an early study that tested the injection drug, which mimics the effects of a natural hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21). In the body, FGF21...
by North Carolina State University New research from North Carolina State University shows that platelet microparticles are an effective way to deliver therapeutic drugs directly to the heart following a heart attack. This method increases drug concentration at the site and could help heart attack patients reduce side effects from drugs used to aid recovery....
