This Week In Science (22/11/2024)
Your weekly digest of science news picked by the Felix Science editorial team
James Desmet
Science Writer
Giving cancer a taste of its own medicine
James Desmet explores Targeted Protein Degradation, a potential drug discovery strategy capable of treating previously undruggable diseases.
AI to Z: The paradigmatic shift facing the world as we know it
Examining the impacts of AI from industry to intelligence.
Understanding the shape of life
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper for their protein structure breakthroughs.
The insulin controversy in the US: a financial tug-of-war
On the rising prices of insulin in the US and the impact on both companies and patients.
The opioid epidemic and the future of pain treatment
The roots of the opioid epidemic and their relevance to the future of analgesics
The forgotten C - Cancer during COVID-19
602,350 people died of cancer in 2020 in the US, and cancer still took the lead over COVID-19 in death toll even in the worst affected countries