Researchers find new molecule to block ‘Hedgehog` signaling in cancer, development

Monday, January 19, 2009 - 13:35 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have achieved a feat drug developers had thought difficult, if not impossible, discovering a compound that blocks the functioning of a key developmental protein by binding to an “undruggable” target — an advance that may provide a new avenue to fight skin, pancreatic, prostate, and other cancers.

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