THE easiest way to find new drugs may be to start with an old one. So say researchers who have transformed an antipsychotic drug into a potential treatment for prostate cancer. Their technique could offer low-budget academic labs and biotech start-ups a chance to compete with big pharma.
“The team began with a database of all approved drugs, then used software to model the best one to treat prostate cancer”
One of the main goals of prostate cancer research is to find a drug that blocks the androgen receptor, a hormone receptor that plays a key role in the development…
