Blocking Nuclear Translocation to Treat Cancer and Colitis

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Many proteins have multiple roles. Often, the key to effective therapy is specificity. Not only does the treatment need to be specific for a particular physiological target, often a protein, but the therapeutic effects involve only a single function or subset of the target’s functions or needs to affect the target only within a specific … Read more

Drug Repurposing: Preventing Blindness with an Antifungal

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Benefits of Off-Target Effects There are many FDA-approved medicines. Most have some “off-target” effects, meaning effects that are not those intended for the drug. Sometimes these off-target effects limit the dose of a drug that can be used to treat the intended disease or symptom.  Sometimes these off-target effects are unwanted side effects that the … Read more