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Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Missing the target There are enzymes that no mustard has ever cut, to steal a phrase from science fiction author James Blish. Phosphatases, the flip side of kinase activity, are a perfect example. |
Chemistry World July 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe ponders the possibility of phosphatase inhibitors |
Chemistry World March 10, 2015 Christian Heinis |
Macrocycles in drug discovery Numerous examples presented along with the compounds' potency, selectivity, permeability, bioavailability allow the reader to understand which determinants make a successful macrocyclic drug. |
Chemistry World December 2008 |
Column: In the pipeline I've worked on two drug discovery efforts (one right after the other, as fate would have it) whose final compounds differed by essentially one methyl group from the starting points of each project. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the Pipeline The challenge of biologics. |
Chemistry World October 14, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Enzymes hit with double punch US chemists have made a small molecule that simultaneously blocks two key enzymes involved in the growth of cancer cells. |
Chemistry World September 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe considers the quandaries of living in the age of the kinase |
Chemistry World November 2, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
New way to find drugs' unintended targets Researchers in the US have devised a new way to predict 'off-target' effects for pharmaceutical drugs. |
Chemistry World December 12, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Zwitterion approach to stabilizing drug proteins Researchers in the US have discovered a new way to stabilize and protect protein molecules without affecting the protein's biological activity. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2009 Nina Notman |
The natural approach to winning at drug discovery High throughput drug screening is often described as a casino, with the odds stacked on the side of success as long as a big enough library is used. |
Chemistry World July 26, 2012 Derek Lowe |
Screen shots You might not think that the makeup of a compound screening collection could set off many arguments, but there are a few issues there that will do the trick almost every time. |
Chemistry World June 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Derek Lowe looks into his crystal ball to see what the future of medicinal chemistry might be |
Chemistry World August 26, 2008 |
Photonic crystal drug detective A new high-throughput screening system based on photonic crystals could quickly and cheaply detect molecules that disrupt binding between proteins and DNA. |
Chemistry World July 2008 Kevin Rogers |
What future for small molecule therapy? Pharmaceutical companies overlook bench chemists at their peril |
Bio-IT World September 2006 Kevin Davies |
Pfizer's Global Survey of Pharmacological Space The pharma blends knowledge, computational chemistry and research informatics to build a unified database. Gathering all the data in one place offered greater control for indexing and data retrieval and management, enabling Pfizer scientists to perform global mapping. |
Chemistry World October 2008 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author seeks a cure for 'compound bloat' |
Chemistry World June 2008 Sarah Houlton |
Breaking the rules The author finds out about some chemical tricks that can give a new drug the best possible odds of success |
Chemistry World March 2012 |
Lead-oriented synthesis Ian Churcher and Alan Nadin call for the development of more robust synthetic tools to improve small molecule survival rates in the perilous journey from lead to drug |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Target acquired Phenotypic screening has recently seen a revival in popularity. This technique assesses drug candidates first by their effects in some organism, then works back to their causes. It can be an effective strategy, but when you find some interesting results, the need to explain them can become acute. |
Chemistry World October 27, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Synthetic Origami Folds Like Natural Enzymes Researchers have synthesised a large organic molecule that folds up like a small protein, though its backbone is entirely non-biological. The achievement is a step along the path to producing truly synthetic enzymes in the laboratory. |
Chemistry World March 4, 2015 Philip Ball |
Program ready to weed out tough drug leads A method for reliably predicting how well a candidate drug molecule will bind to its target receptor would allow libraries of molecules to be screened on the computer, without having to synthesize them all. |
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2011 Laura Howes |
Clicking Your Way to Synthetic Antibody Therapies Scientists have clicked together synthetic antibodies using the enzymes they want to target as a template. These synthetic antibodies can then be used to bind to the enzyme templates they were cast from, which could open up a whole new field of therapeutic molecules. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Service with a smile Contract organic synthesis is a competitive business. Service companies in China and India offer their skills at prices it can be difficult for western firms to compete with. So how does a company stand out from the crowd? |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Malorye Branca |
Conquering Infinity with Chemical Genetics Harvard superchemist Stuart Schreiber defines the convergence of chemistry and biology. Now the field of chemical genetics is heading toward the clinic. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2011 Laura Howes |
G-quadruplexes take the strain in cancer drug search A new single molecule technique can provide greater insight into the interactions between G-quadruplexes and small-molecule ligands. |
Chemistry World April 2011 |
Column: In the Pipeline If you look over the whole pharmacopeia, you'll see there are a lot of compounds that got their start as natural products. |
Chemistry World December 2009 |
Column: In the pipeline Is the pharmaceutical industry churning out copycat versions of existing therapies? The author dispels a few myths about 'me-too' drugs |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Derek Lowe |
Magic molecule modifiers The synthesis of a new organic molecule can be approached in several ways. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2014 Manisha Lalloo |
Synthetic strategy targets 'undruggable' small RNAs Chemists in the US have found a way to predict small molecules that can target short pieces of RNA involved in some diseases, such as cancer. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Fluorescent probes take screening to next level Researchers have developed a new high-throughput screening technique that could shed light on the biochemical activities of numerous proteins about which little is currently known. |
Chemistry World November 12, 2009 Hayley Birch |
New drug design looks top Notch against cancer A new type of drug that can block the switching on of certain genes in cancer cells has shown promise in mice. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 |
Put the chemistry back in medicinal chemistry Today, synthetic skill is valued and appreciated much less in medicinal chemistry than in chemical development, though it is equally important for both. Much of the blame lies with the mismeasurement of productivity. |
Chemistry World February 3, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
High Throughput Screening for Kinase Inhibitors Researchers have developed a system for assessing the activity of a crucial class of enzymes involved in cellular signalling pathways. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Modified protein binders give shortcut to drugs The method, which involves attaching polypeptides to the binders, could help reduce the work required to develop protein binders into safer drugs. |
Chemistry World September 9, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Sugaring the Pill Researchers in the US have made a key advance in efforts to bolt sugar molecules onto natural products in the search for new drugs. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Bio-IT World October 9, 2002 Kevin Davies |
Cracking the 'Druggable Genome' How many potential drug targets are encoded in the human genome? It is a crucial question for every biopharma business. |
Bio-IT World April 15, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Target Elimination Industry and FDA scientists turn to databases, applications software, and laboratory chips to move the safest, most effective molecules into clinical trials. |
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Boron-based compounds inhibit key HIV enzyme Researchers in the Czech Republic have shown that an unusual class of boron-containing compound can inhibit HIV protease, a key enzyme involved in replicating the virus that causes Aids. |
Chemistry World February 3, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
New 'hook' for reversibly binding molecules to proteins UK chemists have found a simple new 'hook' that allows molecules to be attached to proteins and later removed, something that is currently difficult to achieve. |
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Jeffrey Skolnick |
Protein Structure Prediction in Drug Discovery Indications are that structure prediction can assist in the automated assignment of proteins to known pathways. |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
DNA has nano building in hand Researchers from Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have built a simple molecular machine from DNA that can bind to and release single molecules of a specific type of protein. |
Chemistry World December 22, 2015 Philip Ball |
Why we need more research risks Chemists are a conservative bunch. Collectively, the data speak very clearly: in selecting the problems they tackle, chemists make conservative choices. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006 |
Thoughtleader: Making Things Stick Ambrx has created the "glue" that allows researchers to attach activity-enhancing molecules to amino acids where they couldn't before. |
Chemistry World August 2007 Derek Lowe |
Opinion: In the Pipeline Process chemists just don't get the credit they deserve. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2013 Derek Lowe |
Natural born chemists Organic chemists may not seem like a humble group. But we should be, because we are humiliated every hour of the day by what nature accomplishes through enzyme catalysis. |
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Mark D. Uehling |
Fishing Chips The next generation of protein microarrays from the likes of Protometrix and Molecular Staging may threaten the early leads of Biacore and Ciphergen -- and work so well that drug companies won't want them. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Doubling Up in Biotech Lilly hits multiple targets with one drug. |
Technology Research News March 23, 2005 |
Nanowires track molecular activity Researchers from Harvard University have found a way to use transistors made from silicon nanowires to gain information about how small molecules bind to proteins. |