Gee, proteins rock

‘Biochemistry is not all that different from cooking,’ says pharmacology chair Heidi Hamm from the American Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on G proteins. ‘New insights in this field have huge implications for drug research.’

On money and blood flows

Any pharmaceutical company wishing to see a new drug covered by health insurance must not only demonstrate its effectiveness but also its cost-effectiveness. The case of the new anticoagulation drugs shows that pharmacoeconomic analyses are not the end of the story.

Brain-bending biology

Many cancer patients benefit from therapeutic antibodies. However, if the tumour cells are located in the brain there is a big chance that they will not yet benefit from this trend. Read about the more or less brilliant attempts made by researchers to make antibodies affect the brain.