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PROTACs show promise for cancer treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

Development of PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) has advanced fairly rapidly as excitement grows over their potential to selectively degrade proteins that are involved in various diseases, including cancer. PROTACs are a type of heterobifunctional degrader that offers multiple advantages over traditional small molecules.

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The Power of Lipids: Enhancing Drug Delivery with Nanoparticles

Roots Analysis

In fact, it has been observed that around 40% of the pharmaceutical drugs approved by regulatory organizations exhibit poor bioavailability / solubility. Further, every year, poor bioavailability is one of the main causes of drug failure in obtaining approval authorization.

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CycPeptMPDB: A database aimed at promoting drug design using cyclic peptides

The Pharma Data

One of the greatest challenges in modern drug design is to find compounds that satisfy somewhat contradictory requirements – they need to be small enough to permeate human cell membranes, while being large enough to target various protein surfaces and proteinprotein interactions.

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The Important Role that Biopharmaceutics Plays in Accelerating Early-Phase Drug Development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Our chemists and formulation scientists review the properties of new drug candidates and “work their magic” to develop formulations that improve the exposure profile of the compound. How does bioavailability play a role in biopharmaceutics? Now fraction absorbed and bioavailability are often confused and used interchangeably.

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The New Frontier in Drug Development: Understanding Biologics and Small Molecules

Cloudbyz

Biologics: Biologics are large, complex molecules, often proteins, that are produced using living cells. Mode of Action : Small Molecules: They often work by binding to specific sites on target proteins to inhibit or activate their function, which can affect various biological pathways inside the cell.

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Cell-penetrating peptides as a delivery system for oligonucleotides

Drug Discovery World

Oligonucleotides act on the RNA level through different molecular pathways, but there is a major drawback when using them as drugs: their poor bioavailability and cellular uptake. Over the years, a range of different CPPs have been developed, including natural translocating proteins through to newly-designed computer-prediction sequences 3.

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Monday 17 April at AACR Annual Meeting 2023

Drug Discovery World

This award recognises an active scientist whose outstanding and innovative research has had a major impact on the cancer field and has the potential to stimulate new directions in cancer immunology. AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Another award highlight was the AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J.