New strategy develops 2 prototype drugs against cancer, retinal diseases

Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 09:15 in Health & Medicine

A comprehensive drug development strategy that starts with extensive screening of potential targeting agents and then narrows down to a small-molecule prototype has yielded two potential drugs that block cancer-promoting pathways in novel ways, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre reports in two papers published back-to-back online at the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science...

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