news $2.6 million granted to create pan-coronavirus vaccine 25 October 2021 | By Anna Begley (Drug Target Review) The La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Brigham and Women's Hospital will collaborate to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine.
news New 3D lung-on-a-chip model enables study of respiratory diseases 4 May 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review) Scientists have developed a 3D lung-on-a-chip model of the distal lung and alveolar structures, enabling the study of COVID-19.
news Researchers gain insight into metabolic pathways hijacked by SARS-CoV-2 16 March 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review) SARS-CoV-2 diverts building blocks from glucose production to the assembly of purine bases, researchers have found.
news Engineered stem cells shown to target breast cancer that metastasises to brain 8 March 2021 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review) A team have shown that a tumour-suppressing and killing molecule delivered to the brain by stem cells has been successful in mice.
news Antibody therapeutic candidate could be used to treat autoimmune diseases 20 December 2019 | By Victoria Rees (Drug Target Review) Researchers have used a drug candidate to block a receptor that contributes to the development of autoimmune disease which could be a potential treatment.
article DTR’s news round-up 2019: the stories that defined the year 18 December 2019 | By Drug Target Review Drug Target Review lists its 10 most popular news stories from 2019, summarising the drug targets that you wanted to read about.
news Single-cell sequencing reveals landscape of immune cell subtypes in lung cancer tumours 10 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review Researchers have used single-cell sequencing to map the landscape of myeloid cells in tumours from patients with lung cancer...
news Therapeutic strategy to prevent gastrointestinal disease 2 April 2019 | By Drug Target Review New approach restores epithelial function in diarrhoea and inflammatory bowel disease models...
news New drug targets for BRCA-driven cancer uncovered 25 January 2019 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review) Preclinical study yields previously unreported, potent and generalisable hits representing potential drug targets for hereditary breast, ovarian cancer...
news Ingestible capsule controlled wirelessly could treat diseases 13 December 2018 | By Drug Target Review Researchers have designed a drug delivery capsule that can stay in the stomach for up to 1 month, and could sense and treat infections...
news Immunoassay developed to detect small molecules 6 December 2018 | By Drug Target Review An immunoassay developed to analyse small molecules has shown 50 times greater accuracy than current systems of analytical techniques...
news Laser-capture RNA seq technique connects Parkinson’s and psychiatric diseases 21 September 2018 | By Drug Target Review A comprehensive study reveals an expanding universe of 'darkest of the dark matter' RNAs in dopamine-producing cells in our brains...
news Next-generation therapeutic helps immune cells detect, destroy cancer 4 July 2018 | By Drug Target Review Researchers have found that cancer cells evade destruction by macrophages in two ways...
news New cancer immunotherapy shows promise in early tests 3 July 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review) Researchers report that in preclinical models they can amplify macrophage immune responses against cancer using a self-assembling supramolecule...
news Blood test may predict future risk of cardiovascular events 16 April 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review) A study of 27,000 women finds that branched-chain amino acid levels in the bloodstream are as predictive of heart disease as LDL cholesterol, other risk factors...