This is fascinating research, targeting transcription factors would be a fantastic way to treat neoplasms and autoimmune disorders. It’ll be interesting to see what these do to the rest of the body’s cell lines if animal/clinical trials are eventually begun. I’d be worried about them especially targeting hematopoietic cells.

Man I was wondering who was going to do this first. Great idea but clearly it took a long time to figure out how!

This seems like an interesting treatment option for certain cancers. I do have some concerns about this synthetic molecule they mention, but do not provide any biochemical description.

It sounds like it's binding to the DNA temporarily to inhibit the transcription factor from binding. I would be curious to see how it would impact DNA replication and how it enters and leaves the body.

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