Immunology

New therapeutic approach for advanced lung disease

Researchers have demonstrated the potential of a new class of drugs for the treatment of refractory chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Incurable to date, the disease is one of the most frequent causes of death ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Identifying another piece in the Parkinson's disease pathology puzzle

An international public-private research consortium has identified and validated a cellular role of a primary Parkinson's disease drug target, the LRRK2 kinase. This important finding, published in the online, open-access ...

Medications

Popular antidepressant might prevent heart failure

A medication usually used to help treat depression and anxiety disorders has the potential to help prevent heart failure, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

Oncology & Cancer

Alternative target for breast cancer drugs

Scientists have identified higher levels of a receptor protein found on the surface of human breast tumour cells that may serve as a new drug target for the treatment of breast cancer. The results, which are published today ...

Oncology & Cancer

Anti-cancer drug profiling with CancerOmicsNet

As documented in a new research paper published in Oncotarget, researchers from Louisiana State University have developed CancerOmicsNet—a graph neural network model to predict the growth rate of a cancer cell line after ...

Oncology & Cancer

Clearing a path for cancer research

EMBL-EBI researchers have developed a new computational method to study biological signalling networks in healthy and cancer cells.

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