Sentences with phrase «basis of a new class of drugs»
Peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic hybrid of protein and DNA, could form the basis of a new class of drugs — and of artificial life unlike anything found in nature
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(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.
In the late 1990s — with the advent of a new class of protein - based drugs, monoclonal antibodies — demand sometimes outstripped supply.
The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear to determine the response of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes of chemotherapy treatment.
«Now you have a way to test efficacy of future vaccines or future therapeutics, whether those therapeutics are drugs that exist already that could be used in a different way for a different purpose, or new classes of drugs such as antibody - based therapeutics that would be more specifically against Zika,» Diamond said.