Scientist finds potential use for old drugs

As per a new research conducted by Washington State University suggested that the simple modifications to the drug furamidine has a major impact on its capability to affect the specific human proteins involved in the on-off switches of various genes. The Furamidine is from a family of drugs that is known as heterocyclic dications. This particular drug has a very long history of use in serious parasitic diseases including malaria, African sleeping sickness and PCP, which is a common infection in HIV/AIDS. This drug has found a new face and a new use to it. According to the vigorous research this drug is found to very useful to treat deadly diseases. The co-researcher, Gregory Poon, pharmaceutical scientist at Washington State University explains, “This was rather unexpected, given how relatively simple the molecules are that we modified and how difficult it has been to affect these proteins. For this reason, they have been called undruggable.”