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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