{"id":144993,"date":"2022-08-27T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/recently-discovered-molecule-kills-hard-to-treat-cancers"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:25:10","slug":"recently-discovered-molecule-kills-hard-to-treat-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/recently-discovered-molecule-kills-hard-to-treat-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Recently Discovered Molecule Kills Hard-To-Treat Cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recently-discovered-molecule-kills-hard-to-treat-cancers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new molecule created by a researcher at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-texas-at-dallas\/>University of Texas at Dallas<\/a> kills a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer, by taking advantage of a weakness in cells that was not previously targeted by existing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which was conducted using isolated cells, human cancer tissue, and mouse-grown human cancers, was recently published in <em>Nature Cancer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A co-corresponding author of the study and an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Jung-Mo Ahn has dedicated more than ten years of his career to developing small molecules that target protein-protein interactions in cells. He previously created potential therapeutic candidate compounds for treatment-resistant prostate cancer and breast cancer using a method called structure-based rational drug design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new molecule created by a researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas kills a variety of difficult-to-treat cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer, by taking advantage of a weakness in cells that was not previously targeted by existing drugs. The research, which was conducted using isolated cells, human cancer tissue, and mouse-grown human cancers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}