1 year ago
Predicting Protein Targets and the Molecules that Bind with Them
When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill in 2020, pharmaceutical companies countered with remarkable speed to develop mRNA vaccines by the end of that year. …
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3 years ago
Oak Ridge National Laboratory joins ATOM Consortium to Accelerate Drug Discovery
The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine, or ATOM, consortium today announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge, Argonne and Brookhaven national laboratories are joining the consortium to further …
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4 years ago
Supercomputing Aids Scientists Seeking Therapies for Deadly Bacterial Disease
Francisella tularensis, a bacterium that causes the illness tularemia (also known as “rabbit fever”), is one of the most hostile organisms on the planet. Once the bacterium enters the body …
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6 years ago
Titan Helps Researchers Suck Mystery Out of Cell’s ‘Vacuum Cleaners’
In the fight against cancer, cancer cells often find ways to fight back. One means is by stocking the cell membrane with proteins that pump foreign substances—including anticancer drugs—out of …
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