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Scientists block Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells. Using substances that block the activation of those pathways, they've ...





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Scientists develop novel method to generate functional hepatocytes for drug testing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have for the first time produced liver cells from adult skin cells using the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.


New nanoparticles could revolutionize therapeutic drug discovery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A revolutionary new protein stabilisation technique has been developed by scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which could lead to 30 per cent more proteins being available as potential ...


Chemists develop Distributed Drug Discovery

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have developed Distributed Drug Discovery (D3), a new low-cost strategy to accelerate the discovery of drugs to treat neglected diseases such as tuberculosis, ...


New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...


Stem Cell Research Made Safer with Latest Discovery

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new development in stem cell research has resulted from a completed study by a collaboration of scientists using the drug Rapamycin to inhibit mTOR, an intracellular protein necessary in cell proliferation. ...


Researchers discover a new antibacterial lead

Researchers discover a new antibacterial lead

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antibiotic resistance has been a significant problem for hospitals and health-care facilities for more than a decade. But despite the need for new treatment options, there have been only two ...


Drunken fruit flies help scientists find potential drug target for alcoholism

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A group of drunken fruit flies have helped researchers from North Carolina State and Boston universities identify entire networks of genes—also present in humans—that play a key role in alcohol drinking behavior. This discovery, ...


Study finds new insight on therapy for a devastating parasitic disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have discovered an important new insight into how a commonly prescribed drug may work to treat those infected by a parasitic flatworm.


US pharmacologist Robert Furchgott

Viagra developer Furchgott dead at 92: report

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92, The New York Times reported Sunday.


Discovery could help stem infections of parasitic roundworms

Discovery could help stem infections of parasitic roundworms (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Working with researchers in China, biologists at UC San Diego have discovered how a Chinese drug effective in killing parasitic roundworms works.



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