toxicity Archive

  • The goal of drug discovery is to find potent and selective inhibitors for particular targets. A good ligand thus should be small (for better bio-availability) and potent. 
The larger is [...]

    Does size matter?

    The goal of drug discovery is to find potent and selective inhibitors for particular targets. A good ligand thus should be small (for better bio-availability) and potent. The larger is [...]

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  • It’s “well known” that we all need to find the stronger inhibitors against any specific therapeutic target as possible. The motivation is that the strongest inhibitors are most probably less [...]

    Do we need those nM-inhibitors?

    It’s “well known” that we all need to find the stronger inhibitors against any specific therapeutic target as possible. The motivation is that the strongest inhibitors are most probably less [...]

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  • We use a few chemical compounds vendors in our drug discovery programs (let us call them “Provider I”, “Provider II”, and “Provider III”). Nowadays chemicals providers normally claim about 1M [...]

    How drug-like are vendor libraries?

    We use a few chemical compounds vendors in our drug discovery programs (let us call them “Provider I”, “Provider II”, and “Provider III”). Nowadays chemicals providers normally claim about 1M [...]

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  • An ideal drug cures a decease and does not kill a patient (or even lab animals in the course of preclinical testing). Usual drug discovery paradigm is based on studying [...]

    From Biological Spectra (multiple protein binding data) to pharmacological profiling!

    An ideal drug cures a decease and does not kill a patient (or even lab animals in the course of preclinical testing). Usual drug discovery paradigm is based on studying [...]

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  • Prediction of toxic properties of small drug like molecules is a big challenge both from theoretical and practical points of view. Quantitatively people use different measures of toxicity such as [...]

    LD50 vs. MRDD: what’s death for a mice is good enough for a man

    Prediction of toxic properties of small drug like molecules is a big challenge both from theoretical and practical points of view. Quantitatively people use different measures of toxicity such as [...]

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