Catching on to Cancer – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander

Most medicines, from aspirin to advanced cancer therapies, are made up of small molecules that move throughout the body, attach to certain proteins and in this way help prevent or treat diseases. However, the binding between these small molecules and their respective proteins usually lasts for a very short period of time, often limiting their beneficial effect.

Dr. Nir London’s research group at the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Chemical and Structural Biology Department specializes in identifying a special class of molecules – those that stick to proteins throughout the entire span…