Drug discovery

Tools & Techniques Drug discovery

Escaping the Rat Race

| Stefan Amisten

Over-reliance on rodent models could be leading drug discovery in the wrong direction

Research Field Respiratory

A Breath of Fresh Air?

| Roisin McGuigan

Regulating the production of alpha-synuclein may be a new approach for treating Parkinson’s

Research Field Cancer

Leidenfrost Nanochemistry

| James Strachan

Scientists fabricate anticancer nanoparticles by recreating deep sea volcano chemistry.

Disease Area Drug discovery

Targeting Tuberculosis

| Santiago Ramón-García

Existing drugs can – and should – be repurposed to fight neglected diseases.

Research Field Omics

Embracing the Proteogenomic Toolkit

| Andreas Hühmer

To win the war on cancer, we need to put proteomics on an equal footing with genomics.

Tools & Techniques Cancer

Cracking Cancer’s Code

| Roisin McGuigan

Sitting Down With George Calin, Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA.

Research Field Drug discovery

Here Be Dragons

| Rich Whitworth

Antimicrobial peptides found in Komodo dragon plasma provide inspiration for new antibiotics.

Tools & Techniques Infectious diseases

A Universal Shot

| Derek Gatherer

A universal flu vaccine is possible – but we need bioinformatics to show us the way

Outside the Lab Drug discovery

Taking Cues from the City of Notions

| Chas Bountra

Boston leads the drug discovery field, and the UK could soon follow suit

Tools & Techniques Drug discovery

When is a Negative a Positive?

| Robert S. Kerbel

We need to change attitudes towards publishing "negative" results

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