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Mefloquine identified as promising potential drug to combat COVID-19
Researchers in Japan propose that the antimalarial drug mefloquine could be repurposed to effectively treat SARS-CoV-2.
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Potential COVID-19 antivirals revealed in large-scale drug analysis
Drug analysis at the Francis Crick Institute and University of Dundee has revealed 15 potential antivirals that could lead to new COVID-19 treatments.
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Guide: Eight tips for ensuring a successful ELISA
Learn quick technical tips to optimise your ELISA workflow, including how to: select the right ELISA kit, avoid contamination and normalise data.
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Product hub: Octet® R series systems
Discover the new Octet R series systems, a comprehensive solution for screening and characterising molecular interactions such as protein-protein or protein-drug interactions.
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Brochure: Viral research solutions
Solutions to help you understand viral diseases and translate your research findings into better treatments and vaccines.
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Researchers discover class of drugs that could treat mantle cell lymphoma
A screening campaign has revealed that small molecule inhibitors of the SOX 11 oncogene are toxic to mantle cell lymphoma in vitro.
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Drug development in stem cell-derived liver organoid models
To ensure that new drugs are effective and have as little toxicity as possible, they first need to be tested in model systems before entering clinical trials. In this Q&A, Dr Takanori Takebe outlines his research into liver organoids derived from stem cells that can be used to test new…
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Application note: Pushing the boundaries in pharmaceutical hit discovery with the novel waveRAPID® kinetic assay
We demonstrate the power of waveRAPID in streamlining the kinetic characterisation of large numbers of drug hit compounds, with results comparable to traditional surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and high reproducibility.
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Small molecule to potentially treat diabetes discovered in screening study
A small molecule found in a cell-based ultra-high-throughput screening campaign was shown to treat diabetes in cells and mice.
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Covalent fragment screening in cell-based phenotypic models of disease: a collaborative approach
The application of chemical perturbation approaches in phenotypic models is often used to identify protein targets for therapeutic discovery. Increasingly, small molecule fragments which covalently bind to their protein targets are being used to explore the druggable proteome and the resulting fragment‑protein interactions are characterised by chemoproteomic techniques. In this…
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Targeting phosphodiesterase 3A: discovery of a promising cancer therapy
A new promising sarcoma target, phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A), and drugs targeting it have been identified by researchers at the University of Helsinki. Dr Katja Ivanitskiy, Dr Harri Sihto and Professor Olli Kallioniemi outline emerging evidence that indicates PDE3A protein-targeting compounds may induce sarcoma cell death by acting as a molecular…
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Screening for COVID-19 drugs
With the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing, new therapeutic drugs to combat SARS-CoV-2 are still required. In this article, Professor Arvind Patel from the Medical Research Council (MRC) – Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at the University of Glasgow spoke with Drug Target Review’s Victoria Rees to discuss the work being done…
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Assessing compound activity to accelerate drug discovery
In this article, Drug Target Review’s Victoria Rees explores a new screening platform that assesses the biological activity of molecules to identify potential drugs. Using their new technique, researchers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) identified potential COVID-19 therapeutics.
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Why some screening hits are a PAIN
A major challenge during high-throughput and fragment screening is the potential for identifying ‘frequent hitters’ – compounds that affect unrelated targets. Matthew Lloyd from the University of Bath explains why these hits can arise during drug discovery and how machine learning could be the answer to identifying these compounds.
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Application note: Effectiveness of CRISPR‑Cas9 using pools of synthetic crRNAs in high-content analysis screening experiments
Chemical synthesis of guide RNAs for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing enables accurate and rapid production of CRISPR libraries and screening in an arrayed, one-gene-per-well fashion.