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New & Special: The state-of-the-art of ‘Molecular Modeling in Drug Design’
New Special Issue in the journal ‘Molecules’ out on the state-of-the-art of ‘Molecular Modeling in Drug Design’ guest edited by Rebecca …
The need for speed: Why malaria parasites are faster than human immune cells
Elementary cytoskeleton protein is different in parasites and represents a starting point for a possible new therapy against malaria infections. Researchers …
New computational method for drug discovery
HITS researchers developed tauRAMD, a tool to predict drug-target residence times from short simulations. The method is illustrated on the cover …
Accelerated reactions in condensed bio-matter?
HITS researcher Dr. Kashif Sadiq explores ribonucleoprotein granules, a condensed form of bio-matter found inside cells. He investigates whether the rate …
EuroNeurotrophin project starts
14 Early Stage Researchers to be trained in a European training network for the discovery of small molecule neurotrophin mimetics as candidate …
A matter of mobility: multidisciplinary paper suggests new strategy for drug discovery
A joint industry/academia study of a cancer target protein reveals unusual relation between binding site flexibility and drug-target lifetime. The …
Announcing Fourth Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm Meeting (BDBDB 4)
Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 4 (BDBDB4) will, like the previous meetings (the last was BDBDB3), provide a forum for intensive …
New TRAPP webserver for studying TRAnsient Pockets in Proteins
Many drugs exert their therapeutic effects by binding in cavities or pockets on specific target protein macromolecules. The binding pockets on …