by National Institutes of Health Killer T cells surround a cancer cell. Credit: NIH Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have identified and tested a drug combination that exploits a weakness in small cell lung cancer (SCLC), an aggressive, dangerous cancer. The scientists targeted a vulnerability in how the cancer cells reproduce, increasing already high...
Technique could improve machine-learning tasks in protein design, drug testing, and other applications MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A machine-learning model from MIT researchers computationally breaks down how segments of amino acid chains determine a protein’s function, which could help researchers design and test new proteins for drug development or biological research. Proteins are linear chains of amino acids, connected by...
This entry is part 12 of 16 in the series Grand Challenge Think of a tumour like a rapidly growing city within a patient’s body. Doctors can scan the patient to locate the tumour, much like a satellite can scan the earth and map its cities. And scientists can get a sense of the tumour at...
