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How to find a drug: the past, present and future of small molecule drug discovery?

DrugBaron

Despite the current hype around so called “advanced therapies”, which range from gene editing to cell therapies, and the inexorable advance of biologic therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, even in 2022 the majority of drugs in development and reaching patients are still small organic molecules.

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Supramolecular nanostructures for the delivery of peptides in cancer therapy [Minireview]

ASPET

The self-assembled structures can be small molecules, polymers, peptides, proteins, which can be utilized and functionalized to achieve tailored release and target specific cells, tissues, or organs. Different SNs approaches and recent literature reviews on peptide delivery are also presented to the readers.

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A new drug approval for the vanguard of RNA-targeted small molecules

Dark Matter Blog

A few years ago, at Arrakis Therapeutics, we set out to conquer a strange new territory, drugging RNA structures with small molecules. Using gene therapy, their approach was beautifully straightforward – “Missing an important gene? But we have not been the only people on this mission. We will replace it.”

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Looking beyond traditional oncogenic pathways to break cancer resistance

Drug Target Review

Most targeted cancer therapies used today operate by inhibiting targets along well-known oncogenic signalling cascades. The reactivation of oncogenic signalling upstream or downstream of the driving oncogene is a well-studied source of resistance to targeted cancer therapies.

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RNA processing in health and disease: challenges and opportunities of the field

Drug Target Review

In this article Drug Target Review’s Izzy Wood spoke to Sam Hasson, Director of Target Biology at Rgenta Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Massachusetts, US, that aims to develop small molecule therapeutics to target RNA processing. It is somewhat like how PROTACs have changed the perspective on what is a tractable therapeutic target.

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The Future of Drug Discovery: Tackling the Undruggable with New Biotechnologies

DrugBank

These multifunctional small molecules are like tiny spies, hijacking the body’s natural protein degradation system to remove unwanted proteins. For example, PROTACs targeting STAT3, a protein crucial for tumor growth, have shown promise where conventional therapies have failed.

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Antibody-drug conjugates payloads: then, now and next

Drug Target Review

Groundbreaking strategies like proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) are also being explored. 6 Combining the effect of payloads with different mechanisms of action – an approach that revolutionised small molecule chemotherapy – also holds the promise of enhanced therapeutic activity for ADCs.