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Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...


Researchers identify drug candidate for treating spinal muscular atrophy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A chemical cousin of the common antibiotic tetracycline might be useful in treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a currently incurable disease that is the leading genetic cause of death in infants. This is the finding of ...


Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


Antibiotic may be new stroke treatment

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic efficacy of the drug in animal models.


'Fatostatin' is a turnoff for fat genes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

A small molecule earlier found to have both anti-fat and anti-cancer abilities works as a literal turnoff for fat-making genes, according to a new report in the August 28th issue of the journal Chemistry and Biology, a Cell ...


New class of compounds discovered for potential Alzheimer's disease drug

New class of compounds discovered for potential Alzheimer's disease drug

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new class of molecules capable of blocking the formation of specific protein clumps that are believed to contribute to Alzheimer's disease pathology has been discovered by researchers at the University of ...


New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...


Study leads to a promising first-in-class drug candidate

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discoveries by Scripps Research Institute scientists have led to a promising new drug candidate--the first in its class--for patients with a genetic protein-misfolding disease. In results announced by the biopharmaceutical ...


Merck's heart failure drug misses trial goals

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Merck and Co. said Friday its heart failure treatment rolofylline missed its goals in a trial, failing to improve patient symptoms compared with a placebo.


Test quickly assesses whether Alzheimer's drugs are hitting their target

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A test developed by physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may help assess more quickly the ability of Alzheimer's drugs to affect one of the possible underlying causes of Alzheimer's ...