Men with aggressive prostate cancer that has stopped responding to conventional treatment could potentially benefit from a new class of
cancer drug designed to overcome drug resistance, a new study suggests.
Gleevec belongs to a new class of targeted
cancer drugs designed to destroy tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.
Electron cryo - microscopy is emerging as a complementary approach in
cancer drug design to X-ray crystallography — which involves generating highly ordered crystals of proteins and hitting them with X-ray radiation.
«Scientists advance
cancer drug design with image of one of key proteins of life.»
Not exact matches
A
drug that was being
designed to fight
cancer and diabetes melts away arterial plaque.
«It essentially gives us a periodic table,» Ron DePinho, President of MD Anderson
Cancer Center says, which has provided us with both diagnostic and therapeutic value as well as helped us design clinical trials to accelerate the development of new cancer drugs,&r
Cancer Center says, which has provided us with both diagnostic and therapeutic value as well as helped us
design clinical trials to accelerate the development of new
cancer drugs,&r
cancer drugs,».
Investigators have repeatedly touted the
drug as a potential lynchpin in immuno - oncology, focusing on an enzyme that suppresses the immune cells Opdivo and a whole new class of PD - 1 / L1 checkpoints are
designed to unleash in an attack on
cancer cells.
Celgene's lead product, Revlimid, a
drug designed to treat multiple myeloma and a few other
cancer types, has been benefiting from longer duration of use, strong pricing power, and high multiple myeloma market share.
The $ 1.6 billion investment is
designed to produce advanced
cancer drugs and create hundreds of new jobs.
Scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have
designed two new
drug candidates to target prostate and triple negative breast
cancers.
Student Research Helps Discover
Cancer Drugs Cancer drug design provided a challenging PhD dissertation topic for Almut Mecke, a physics student at University of Michigan.
Chemotherapy
drugs designed to kill tumors may actually encourage ovarian
cancer by stimulating the growth of cells that give rise to the malignancy, a new study finds.
Dr. Melnick developed the first BCL6 inhibitors nine years ago, and has continued to improve upon the
design of these
drugs so they could be used to treat
cancer patients.
Published in the journal Molecular
Cancer Therapeutics, the study also found that use of a second inhibitor might improve the effectiveness of these
drugs by possibly preventing resistance, and it recommends that clinical trials should be
designed to include a second inhibitor.
«Our computer aided
drug screening process has now identified two new classes of anti-
cancer agents, specifically targeting two distinct and novel mechanisms underpinning
cancer,» said Dr Andrea Brancale from Cardiff University's School of Pharmacy, who led on the compound's
design.
The research explains how tumors evolve and cause
cancer resistance to
drugs designed to match the patient's unique genomic makeup.
But there's a dark side to
cancer - killing
drugs designed to match distinct
cancer mutations like a key into a lock.
Grzybowski notes that
cancers are more acidic than the rest of the body, so — like the maze droplets — one could potentially
design drug vehicles to follow the acid - base gradient toward the
cancer cells.
The team's results uncover a previously unknown, complex genomic landscape of this
cancer, which can be used to
design new personalized
drug regimens for SS patients based on their unique genetic makeup.
He's also likely to spur the FDA to follow the course laid out by agency
cancer czar Richard Pazdur in speeding new approvals, possibly setting up a special unit aimed at orphan
drugs to hasten OKs with smaller, better
designed clinical trials.
Scientists have developed a three - in - one blood test that could transform treatment of advanced prostate
cancer through use of precision
drugs designed to target mutations in the BRCA genes.
Although SU101 is
designed to sabotage messages from a particular messenger chemical, the approach could open the door to a range of new
cancer drugs.
«Targeted
drugs that are
designed to inhibit any or all of these three steps might greatly improve the treatment of head and neck
cancer.»
A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new
drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain
cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — J
cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive
Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — J
Cancer Center — Arthur G. James
Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — J
Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).
The findings provide information essential for
designing novel targeted
drugs that might improve the treatment of head and neck
cancer.
The
drug, BPM31510, was
designed to change how
cancer cells produce energy.
Small molecule
drugs can be screened or
designed to increase telomerase activity exclusively within stem cells for disease treatment as well as anti-aging therapies without increasing the risk of
cancer.
It was the first
drug designed to inhibit new vessel growth (angiogenesis), and was approved by the FDA in 2004 for treating colorectal
cancers — which typically boost angiogenesis to keep themselves well supplied with oxygen and nutrients.
Gerry Potter and Ray McCague of the Institute of
Cancer Research in Surrey based their design strategy on tamoxifen, a drug widely used for treating breast c
Cancer Research in Surrey based their
design strategy on tamoxifen, a
drug widely used for treating breast
cancercancer.
King said he looks forward to a time when
cancer -
drug molecules will be packaged inside of
designed nanocages and delivered directly to tumor cells, sparing healthy cells.
It attaches these
drugs to polymer nanoparticles that migrate specifically into
cancer cells and are
designed to release the
drugs at a particular level of acidity that is common to those cells.
«This is the first example of taking a genetic sequence and
designing a
drug candidate that works effectively in an animal model against triple negative breast
cancer,» said TSRI Professor Matthew Disney.
In a development that could lead to a new generation of
drugs to precisely treat a range of diseases, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have for the first time
designed a
drug candidate that decreases the growth of tumor cells in animal models in one of the hardest to treat
cancers — triple negative breast
cancer.
They want to know how it will help cure
cancer; they speculate about customized medicine, with
drugs designed for the individual, not the population.
New insights from neutron analysis of glaucoma
drugs and their enzyme target may help scientists
design drugs that more effectively target aggressive
cancers.
In February, for example, the Food and
Drug Administration approved MammaPrint, a test
designed to help breast
cancer patients.
Professor Michael Lisanti, who
designed the study, explained: «We now know that a proportion of
cancer cells escape chemotherapy and develop
drug resistance; we established this new strategy to find out how they do it.
This knowledge may be used to develop new ways for opening the blood - brain - barrier to increase the efficacy of the brain
cancer drugs and for the
design of treatment regimes that strengthens the integrity of the blood - brain barrier.»
«Studies like this also give us a better understanding of how
cancer changes to evade treatments — knowledge we can use when we are
designing the new
cancer drugs of the future.»
«By imaging how proteins interlock in ultra-fine detail, down to the tens of billionths of a metre, our study should make it much easier to
design new, more potent
cancer drugs.
Dr Emma Smith, senior science communications officer at
Cancer Research UK, said: «Revealing the molecule's detailed shape could be the first step towards
designing more precise
drugs to block it.
Patients with advanced
cancers who took a
drug designed to relieve constipation caused by pain killers lived longer and had fewer reports of tumor progression than
cancer patients who did not receive the
drug, according to results presented Oct. 27 at the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in San Diego.
The Wyss team has unveiled not only a novel
design of their «targeted EPO,» but also «targeted interferon alfa,» a
cancer drug that can otherwise cause side effects including flu - like symptoms, mood fluctuations, and depression.
The finding will trigger a new wave of rational
drug design, predicts Robert Weinberg, a
cancer biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
«The problem is
cancer cells are so diverse that even though the
drugs,
designed to target single
cancer driving genes, often initially are effective, they eventually stop working and patients succumb to the disease,» Peter said.
Imagine developing a
drug designed to inhibit a protein that helps
cancer cells proliferate and survive only to find that the
drug does not perform very well in the clinic.
To harness this system for the destruction of
cancer proteins, Bradner's team
designed a chemical adapter that attaches to a targeted
drug molecule.
Androgens, like testosterone, encourage the growth of prostate
cancer cells, so scientists
designed drugs called selective androgen receptor antagonists / modulators (SARMs) to block androgen receptors.
The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, by refining CRISPR - Cas9 technology and using it to screen the leukemia genome the team uncovered a catalogue of approximately 500 genes that are essential for
cancer cell survival, including more than 200 genes for which
drugs could be
designed.
Indiana University researchers have made an important step forward in the
design of
drugs that fight the hepatitis B virus, which can cause liver failure and liver
cancer.