Repurposing an anesthetic for epilepsy
The general anesthesia drug propofol restores function to mutated signaling channels associated with epilepsy.
structural biology
Visualizing the measles virus reveals a potential treatment
Researchers uncovered the structure of the measles fusion glycoprotein and identified a neutralizing antibody capable of decreasing its virulence.
Structure-based drug design
How do scientists utilize protein structural information to create therapeutic agents efficiently?
A new synthetic antibiotic tightly binds bacterial ribosomes
Fully synthetic approaches expand the repertoire of possible antimicrobials to overcome existing antibiotic resistance mechanisms.
