{"id":4371,"date":"2021-09-13T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saince.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2023-04-28T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:41:29","slug":"newly-identified-mechanism-can-accelerate-the-development-of-sting-activating-drugs-using-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saince.com\/blog\/newly-identified-mechanism-can-accelerate-the-development-of-sting-activating-drugs-using-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly identified mechanism can accelerate the development of STING-activating drugs using imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new study from scientists at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that emerging drugs that activate the protein STING, substantially alter the activity of metabolic pathways responsible for generating the nucleotide building blocks for DNA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 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