Sentences with phrase «specific class of drugs»

or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

Not exact matches

The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a new class of drugs called small molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.

Prof Tilley and her team are currently working with experts from Japanese anti-cancer drug giant Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Swiss - based foundation Medicines for Malaria Venture to identify additional classes of parasite specific proteasome inhibitors that could be advanced to clinical trials.

Bazedoxifene is a pill that, like tamoxifen, belongs to a class of drugs known as specific estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).

A new strategy for engineering protein fusions — to make specific cell - targeted drugs without side effects — could enable a safer, more potent class of protein drugs.

Members of this class of drugs are usually highly specific against components of a particular virus, and mutations in the virus that change these components can make them ineffective.

An entire class of proteins called transcription factors, which regulate the activity of certain genes by interacting with specific sequences of DNA, has largely been ignored by the pharmaceutical industry because it's difficult to design and screen drugs against them.

Monoclonal antibodies are one such class of biologics and these drugs are made by farming antibodies from B cells that will act against a specific part of the disease process.

The partnership will use the Human Emulation System — a lab - ready system comprised of Organ - Chips, instrumentation, and software apps — to discover and develop new classes of therapeutic antibodies and drug combinations, many of which have complexities and human - specific features.

In the study, functional Ikaros protein produced from the one remaining normal Ikaros gene was restored with a novel class of drugs that target a specific enzyme called casein kinase 2 or CK2.

The drug represents a new class of treatments that are made to attack a specific type of tumor.