Antidepressants Give Cancer Cells the Blues
Stephan C Jahn · Postdoc Journal · 2013
With the ever present need for novel treatments of human diseases, processes that accelerate the progress from bench to bedside are constantly being sought. While developing a new small molecule from the ground up takes a great deal of time and resources, repurposing drugs that have already been approved for the use of other indications allows their clinical use to occur in a very timely manner. Here, we highlight a new bioinformatics approach to finding new uses for old drugs, using data that are already available, that was recently published by Jahchan et al.