Molecular Target
Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery
A team led by Jerome Baudry of the University of Tennessee-ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics adapted a widely used existing software to allow supercomputers…
MGH researchers develop faster method of engineering zinc-finger nucleases
A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has developed a faster way to engineer synthetic enzymes that target specific DNA sequences for…
Researchers discover how natural drug fights inflammation
The results (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/210882970), which are published in the November 2010 Journal of Biological Chemistry, reveal important new drug…
Immune system changes linked to inflammatory bowel disease revealed
The results, which help researchers move one step further in their efforts to develop new drugs to treat inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases, are…
Small molecule may disarm enemy of cancer-fighting p53
A pioneering clinical trial is testing the effectiveness in leukemia of a small molecule that shuts down MDM2, a protein that can disable the well-known tumor…
Social stress leads to atherosclerosis
This is the conclusion of a thesis presented at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Several large studies have clearly shown that there is a correlation…