{"id":225193,"date":"2025-11-16T04:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-technique-enables-faster-drug-design-for-diseases-linked-to-ion-channels"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:08","slug":"new-technique-enables-faster-drug-design-for-diseases-linked-to-ion-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-technique-enables-faster-drug-design-for-diseases-linked-to-ion-channels","title":{"rendered":"New technique enables faster drug design for diseases linked to ion channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-enables-faster-drug-design-for-diseases-linked-to-ion-channels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team involving the Institute of Chemical Research, a joint center of the University of Seville and the Spanish National Research Council, has developed a new technique that will accelerate the design of drugs that target ion channels, a type of cell membrane protein involved in numerous diseases, ranging from psychiatric disorders to various types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The research, carried out in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and the Qadram Institute (both in the United Kingdom), has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c02985\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Ion channels are cell membrane proteins that regulate the passage of ions into the cell. They are essential in processes as diverse as nerve transmission, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/muscle+contraction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle contraction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/immune+response\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune response<\/a> and their dysfunction is associated with numerous disorders, making them therapeutic targets of great interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team involving the Institute of Chemical Research, a joint center of the University of Seville and the Spanish National Research Council, has developed a new technique that will accelerate the design of drugs that target ion channels, a type of cell membrane protein involved in numerous diseases, ranging from psychiatric disorders to various [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225193","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=225193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}