October 2026

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Can we “persuade” a protein to find its way back to its “lost self”?

An insightful article in WIRED Greece is exploring a different way of thinking about drug discovery for protein misfolding diseases. Instead of simply blocking or eliminating a problematic protein, the idea is to change its behavior to shift it away from harmful structures and towards more functional ones. What makes this approach particularly interesting is…

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A new drug candidate offers hope to patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

A new drug candidate molecule that, in preclinical studies, succeeded in restoring learning and memory abilities in animals displaying Alzheimer’s-like symptoms has been identified by Greek researcher Dr. George Skretas and a research team from the Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming,” the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the spin-off company ResQ Biotech. The molecule,…

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