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Getting to grips with drug resistance in the human protein kinase superfamily
Getting to grips with drug resistance in the human protein kinase superfamily
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Getting to grips with drug resistance in the human protein kinase superfamily

21 February 2013 | By Patrick A Eyers, Department of Oncology, Sheffield Cancer Research Centre, University of Sheffield

Protein kinases represent a vast, partially untapped resource of drug targets for therapeutic intervention in human disease. The remarkable success of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor Imatinib, which is now the first-line therapy in Philadelphia-positive tyrosine kinase inhibitor Imatinibhas galvanised biomedical researchers in an attempt to repeat the landmark success of…

RNAi_Europe
RNAi_Europe
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Putting the ‘fun’ into functional genomics: a review of RNAi genomewide cellular screens

18 December 2012 | By Dr. Stephen Brown, Sheffield RNAi Screening Facility, Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield

As RNA interference (RNAi) enters its teenage years from the first critical observations, it has now reached a multi-billion pound industry. There are few research areas that have expanded as quickly and spectacularly as the field of RNAi. The potential of RNAi initially sparked a functional genomics gold rush. Different…

FIGURE 2 Outline of a strategy for testing drugs that perturb embryonic development. Undifferentiated hES cells are grown in (a) control conditions and (b) in the presence of a drug, and then assessed by a high content assay to determine the effect of a drug on cells (by examining the number of cells, expression of markers associated with the differentiated and undifferentiated state, colony number and size). Cells from both conditions are then induced to differentiate to specific cell types to assess the effect of drug treatment on the differentiation ability of hES cells. For example, low number of neurons upon drug treatment may indicate neurotoxic effects of the drug
FIGURE 2 Outline of a strategy for testing drugs that perturb embryonic development. Undifferentiated hES cells are grown in (a) control conditions and (b) in the presence of a drug, and then assessed by a high content assay to determine the effect of a drug on cells (by examining the number of cells, expression of markers associated with the differentiated and undifferentiated state, colony number and size). Cells from both conditions are then induced to differentiate to specific cell types to assess the effect of drug treatment on the differentiation ability of hES cells. For example, low number of neurons upon drug treatment may indicate neurotoxic effects of the drug
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Drug screens on human stem cells: From understanding cell biology to predicting drug toxicity

19 October 2011 | By Ivana Barbaric and Peter W. Andrews, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield

The Canadian physician William Osler said: “The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.” Indeed, all medicines have side effects – some of which may complicate a patient’s treatment, or in extreme cases may even be fatal. Of concern is the…

Will Rust, Lonza
Will Rust, Lonza
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Stem Cells Roundtable

20 March 2009 | By

Dr Paul Andrews (Senior Scientist, ITI Stem Cell Technology Programme, University of Dundee), Professor Peter Andrews (co-Director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield), Fergus McKenzie PhD. (Programme Manager, ITI-Life Sciences), Dr Stephen Minger (Senior Lecturer in Stem Cell Biology, Kings College London) and Will Rust (Section…