Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has synthesized new heterocyclic RAF kinase and/or Ras GTPases inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Wigen Biomedicine Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has identified new histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) and/or HDAC3 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Galecto Biotech AB has divulged new galectin-3 (LGALS3) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune disease, fibrosis and cardiovascular, eye, metabolic, cerebrovascular and inflammatory disorders, among other disorders.
Akita University and Tohoku University have described curcumin derivatives acting as β-catenin (CTNNB1) and NF-κB activation inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, to Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and – for the second time – to Barry Sharpless of The Scripps Research Institute “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal
chemistry.”
Click chemistry, the Nobel Committee’s Olof Ramström told reporters while announcing the prize, “is almost like it sounds – it’s all about linking different molecules.”
He likened click chemistry to a seatbelt buckle, whose interlocking parts can be attached to many different materials, linking them by snapping the two parts of the buckle together.
“The problem was to find good chemical buckles,” Ramström said – chemicals that “will easily snap together, and importantly, they won’t snap with anything else.”
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