{"id":177351,"date":"2026-01-12T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:10:21","slug":"artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Designs Anti-Cancer Molecules to Target CDK9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9\">Artificial Intelligence Designs Anti-Cancer Molecules to Target CDK9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9\">https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 17:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newswise.com\">www.newswise.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers from the Sbarro Institute, the National Cancer Institute \u2013 Pascale Foundation, and the University of Pisa collaborated to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for the design of new antitumor molecules.<\/li>\n<li>The study focused on identifying molecules capable of inhibiting the enzymatic activity of the CDK9 protein, which is highly associated with uncontrolled tumor cell growth.<\/li>\n<li>Machine learning algorithms were used for a large-scale virtual screening to select 14 candidate molecules that were then tested in cellular models of cervical carcinoma and breast cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Two compounds were identified that exhibited significant cytotoxic activity and reduced tumor cell viability, demonstrating promising therapeutic potential.<\/li>\n<li>The study highlights the effectiveness of AI in rapidly identifying promising drug candidates, reducing time and costs in the drug discovery phase.<\/li>\n<li>The integration of AI technology with human expertise promises to accelerate the development of targeted and effective cancer therapies.<\/li>\n<li>The Sbarro Health Research Organization, based in Philadelphia and affiliated with Temple University, is at the forefront of groundbreaking research in cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Designs Anti-Cancer Molecules to Target CDK9 https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/artificial-intelligence-designs-anti-cancer-molecules-to-target-cdk9 Publish Date: 2026-01-12 17:40:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/legacy\/image.php?image=\/images\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12\/696546bd4a6ae_ArtificialIntelligence.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177353,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177351\/revisions\/177353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}