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Harnessing the Body’s Own Protein Waste Removal System to Drug the ‘Undruggable’

How do you catch just one kind of fish in a sea of similar fish? That’s the question being answered by researchers at Nurix, except they aren’t catching fish – they are ‘catching’ proteins in your body. Nurix is developing drugs that can specifically target one protein within the hundreds or thousands of extremely similar proteins in the body, ultimately enabling them to regulate hard-to-drug or ‘undruggable’ proteins.