by University of California – Riverside Cartoon illustrates the research. Credit: Isaac Rodriguez, UC Riverside. In drug discovery, targeted protein degradation is a method that selectively eliminates disease-causing proteins. A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has used a novel approach to identify protein degraders that target Pin1, a protein involved in pancreatic cancer development....
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PROMISING NEW DRUG STOPS SPREAD OF MELANOMA BY 90 PERCENT
Michigan State University researchers have discovered that a chemical compound, and potential new drug, reduces the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90 percent. The man-made, small-molecule drug compound goes after a gene’s ability to produce RNA molecules and certain proteins in melanoma tumors. This gene activity, or transcription process, causes the disease to...