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Condensate biology: advancing drug discovery for complex diseases

Drug Target Review

Dewpoint Therapeutics, a platform drug discovery company founded in 2018, has been at the forefront of this exciting field. Dewpoint’s breakthrough was the realisation that certain condensates are associated with human diseases. The aim is to establish condensate biology as a fundamental branch of cell biology – “cell biology 2.0”

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Women in Stem with Ashley Hall

Drug Target Review

When I was studying cell biology, looking at how cells divide, I couldn’t fathom how math could possibly fit into that. My undergraduate studies focused on biochemistry and cell biology, so very much STEM-based, but my professors and mentors noticed my penchant for critical thinking which led me to consider law.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

He is being recognised for his revolutionary contributions to developing the first gene-edited cell-based therapy for cancer that involves the genetic re-engineering of a patient’s own T cells to combat their disease, and for demonstrating that adoptive T-cell therapy can induce remission and in some cases cure patients with advanced cancer.

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Cancer immunotherapy: GDF-15’s role in Anti-PD-1 resistance

Drug Target Review

These findings were mirrored in the clinical results from an analysis of two metastatic melanoma patient cohorts who received anti-PD-1 treatment: patients with responses and disease control had significantly lower GDF-15 serum levels (measured before treatment start), while none of the patients with elevated GDF-15 levels showed a lasting response.

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A Ray of Molecular Beauty from Cryo-EM

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

That includes those involved in regulating our appetites and our moods, via a class of G proteins known as inhibitory G proteins (G i ). 2018 Jun;558(7711):553-558. [2] 2018 Apr;93(4):251-258. [3] They share a common architecture and bind a relatively limited number of intracellular signaling proteins called G proteins.

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Precision Medicine in the Genomic Era

DrugBank

Out of the millions of genetic variants present in human populations, GWAS are designed to uncover those associated with specific traits or diseases. 9 Polygenic diseases are much more common, and thousands of genetic variants with very small effects could impact their phenotype.

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Making Eggs Without Ovaries

Codon

Activated follicles will mature into antral follicles, consisting of a fully grown oocyte surrounded by several layers of different types of ovarian somatic cells. In 2018, Saitou’s team reported the first method to coax human PGC-like cells into the oogonia stage.

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