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News from AACR 2024: Sunday’s highlights

Drug Discovery World

Following this, Benjamin Cravatt, Professor and the Norton Gilula Chair in Biology and Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, discussed activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) and its use in discovering drug candidates for cancer-relevant proteins.

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FDA-approved drug sensitises brain cancer cells to radiotherapy

Drug Discovery World

Scientists from Korea and the US have unveiled the mechanism of radioresistance in GBM cells, identifying therapeutic targets to overcome radioresistance. Researchers have discovered a clinical drug that sensitises glioblastoma (GBM) cells to radiotherapy and could replace the current standard of care.

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Are organ-chips the future of preclinical research?

Drug Discovery World

With cues from a diverse population of tissue-specific cell types, extracellular matrix proteins, and biomechanical forces, cells grown in organ-chips closely emulate their in vivo counterparts and replicate tissue-level functions. But can organ-chips entirely replace other models? Not yet, according to Ewart.

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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

Drug Discovery World

As the industry moves to reduce the use of animals in research and testing, aptamers also support here, as they are discovered, developed, and manufactured entirely in vitro , removing the need for animals in antibody discovery processes. DDW’s Diana Spencer caught up with co-founder and CEO Dr Arron Tolley.

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Cell-penetrating peptides as a delivery system for oligonucleotides

Drug Discovery World

Over the years, a range of different CPPs have been developed, including natural translocating proteins through to newly-designed computer-prediction sequences 3. Currently, only a small number of CPP-based oligonucleotide delivery examples have been reported for in vivo application. How are cell-penetrating peptides used?

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How mice with humanised immune systems are advancing cell-based immunotherapy

Drug Discovery World

By Courtney Ferrebee, PhD, Field Applications Scientist, Taconic Biosciences. Patient-derived xenografts (PDX) of melanoma were grafted into hIL2 mice, and TILs derived from the same melanoma patient were reactivated and expanded in vitro with IL2 and used to treat the PDX engrafted in the mice. Jespersen et al.

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China’s NMPA clears Transcenta’s IND for solid tumour treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

Findings from a study, which was conducted by Transcenta and Shanghai Jiao Tong University scientists on TST003 to treat androgen receptor-negative/low prostate cancer, were published by Nature Cancer in May last year. The Gremlin1 protein was found to promote lineage plasticity while driving castration resistance in prostate cancer.

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