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Researchers unlock mechanism of drug resistance in aggressive breast cancer

January 27, 2017
ºÚÁÏÍø Lineberger researchers find how triple negative breast cancer cells are able to bypass treatment with trametinib, an FDA-approved drug. The researchers also used lab models of breast cancer to test a potential treatment approach that could prevent resistance.

ºÚÁÏÍø researchers use light to launch drugs from red blood cells

January 25, 2017
  Dr. David Lawrence Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a breakthrough technique that uses light to activate a drug stored in circulating red blood cells so that it is released exactly when and where it is needed. The work, led by Fred Eshelman...

Inside the world of cell signaling: a G-protein breakthrough

January 4, 2017
ºÚÁÏÍø scientists led by John Sondek, PhD, created a new biochemical tool to block specific types of downstream G-protein signaling, opening new avenues of research and potential drug design and discovery.

Engineering Control of Cellular Proteins – An Optogenetics Breakthrough

December 21, 2016
ºÚÁÏÍø scientists expand the use of light to control protein activity in cells. Klaus Hahn and Nikolay Dokholyan have published a paper in Science, detailing how they use light- or ligand-sensitive domains to modulate the structural disorder of diverse proteins, thereby generating robust allosteric switches. The title of the paper...