Drug Discovery

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Some Facts About HER2-Targeted Drugs

Drugs targeting HER2 have shown excellent clinical efficacy over the 20 years, achieving one milestone after another in the field of cancer therapeutics. This article mainly introduces the development history […]

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Discovery of BLU-945 Brings Hope to EGFR-Positive NSCLC Patients

Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase domain are the oncogenic drivers of this adenocarcinoma. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), developed over the last two decades, targeting EGFR mutations, […]

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FDA Approved Oligonucleotide Drugs

Why oligonucleotide drugs? Synthetic oligonucleotides are the key factor in almost all molecular biological methodologies. They are used in PCR, reverse transcription, sequencing, gene editing, synthetic biology, cloning, single nucleotide […]

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The Latest and Most Complete Collection of Cancer Drugs

1. Respiratory system 1.1. Lung cancer Drug Name Trade name CAS Target Description Approved Status Gefitinib lressa 184475-35-2 EGFR Gefitinib effectively inhibits all tyrosine phosphorylation sites on EGFR in both […]

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A Brief Discussion on ALK Inhibitors

In 2007, Japanese professors firstly discovered ALK rearrangement and identified the fusion of ALK and EML4 in non-small cell lung cancer specimens. EML4 can promote the activation of ALK kinase […]

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Introduction to Marketed Kinase Inhibitors

In 2001, the FDA approved Imatinib, the first drug to be developed by targeting a specific protein kinase and the first molecularly targeted drug to fight cancer. It was considered […]

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Common Methods of Drug Analysis

Pharmaceutical analysis and testing can study the composition, physical and chemical properties, authenticity, purity, and the content of active ingredients of drugs, which ensures that people can use drugs reasonably […]

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Research Progress of Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting MYC

MYC protein is an inherently disordered protein, which lacks a hydrophobic pocket or groove suitable for binding small molecule compounds. Currently, no small molecule compounds that can bind MYC have […]

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Progress in R&D of Small Molecule Anti-COVID-19 Drugs (2)

Facing the Coronavirus with continuous mutations, researchers are working hard to develop effective and broad-spectrum anti-Coronavirus drugs and vaccines. At the end of 2021, the small molecule oral drug was […]

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Introduction of Liposome Applications in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Since liposomes have a similar structure to cell membrane, they were used to study the structure and function of biofilms in the early stage. In the late 1960s, Rahman et […]