A robot scientist for drug design and chemical genetics

  • Ross Donald King

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Interview on Breakfast show of BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. This related to our discovery, in work funded by the BBSRC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that triclosan (an antimicrobial commonly used in toothpaste) had a second enzyme target in the malaria parasite. This opens up the prospect of the development of a dual-action antimalarial drug.The pair describing this work: 

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  • TeitlA robot scientist for drug design and chemical genetics
    Graddau amlygrwyddRhanbarthol
    Enw cyfrwng / allfaBBC- Cambridge Breakfast Show
    Math y cyfrwngRadio
    Gwlad/TiriogaethTeyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon
    Dyddiad cyhoeddi01 Ion 2018
    DisgrifiadInterview on Breakfast show of BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. This related to our discovery, in work funded by the BBSRC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, that triclosan (an antimicrobial commonly used in toothpaste) had a second enzyme target in the malaria parasite. This opens up the prospect of the development of a dual-action antimalarial drug.The pair describing this work: Bilsland E, van Vliet L, Williams K, Feltham J, Carrasco MP, Fotoran WL, Cubillos EFG, Wunderlich G, Grøtli M, Hollfelder F, Jackson V, King RD, Oliver SG (2018) Plasmodium dihydrofolate reductase is a second enzyme target for the antimalarial action of triclosan. Scientific Reports 8: 2018 (8 pages) has (thus far) an Altmetrics score of 1019 and has engendered 131 News articles.
    UnigolionRoss Donald King
  • TeitlA robot scientist for drug design and chemical genetics
    Graddau amlygrwyddCenedlaethol
    Enw cyfrwng / allfaBBC Naked Science
    Math y cyfrwngRadio
    Gwlad/TiriogaethTeyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon
    Dyddiad cyhoeddi01 Ion 2018
    UnigolionRoss Donald King
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