Drugging the undruggable: Advances toward next generation of disease fighters
Monday, August 23, 2010 - 14:49
in Health & Medicine
After decades of dreaming the drug developer's impossible dream, scientists finally are reporting progress in making drugs that target the "untouchables" among the body's key players in health and disease. They are the hundreds of thousands of proteins that many scientists considered to be "undruggable," meaning that previous efforts to develop a drug against them had failed.