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A self assembling forest of peptides

News: Nanotechnology    January 6, 2010
Granted, for most people the words in a ‘self assembling forest of peptides’ may not strike a chord of recognition. Researchers at Tel Aviv University (Israel) hope recognition will come. The phrase describes a preliminary technology, proof of concept really, involving a certain kind of nanotechnology using nanotubes. Like many uses of nanotubes, there is [...]
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Powerful peptide penetrates cancer cells

News: Major Disease Cures    December 9, 2009
All too often cancer treatments are like taking a howitzer to a hunting party. The treatment might get the cancer, but there’s often a lot of collateral damage. That’s why, almost from the beginning of cancer research, the goal has been to find ways of stopping cancer without harming the rest of the body. Not [...]
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Stapling peptides to drug the undruggable

News: Major Disease Cures    November 17, 2009
Turning specific genes on and off is something Nature does routinely. Not so for scientists. In particular, a class of proteins that control whether certain genes are activated or not, so called transcription factors, have been considered unreachable. Because of their complex folded configurations, transcription proteins are highly resistant to modification and have been considered [...]
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