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Novel technique informs drug delivery research

University College Dublin researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor David Brayden have shown that a candidate drug delivery polymer may have potential for oral or topical use. These findings were recently ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PEGylated dendrimers: a novel mechanism of drug delivery

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) researchers, in collaboration with the biotechnology company Starpharma Holdings Ltd have developed a new method to deliver medications that may benefit thousands of patients ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NanoViagra

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of anti-impotency drugs based on nanoparticles might be coming quickly. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York presenting at the 104'th Annual Meeting ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3 weblog

Model predicts how to build a better stent

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary arteries open) can increase the likelihood of blood clots and ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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New understanding of DNA repair could eventually lead to cancer therapy

A research group in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta is hoping its latest discovery could one day be used to develop new therapies that target certain types of cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists sound alarm over threat of untreatable gonorrhea in United States

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective  in the Feb. 9 issue of the New En ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

University of Minnesota and start-up to develop antidote to cyanide poisoning

Cyanide poisoning is often fatal and typically affects victims of industrial accidents, terrorist attacks, or structural fires. Based on research conducted at the Center for Drug Design at the University of Minnesota, startup ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FBI file: Steve Jobs was considered for govt post

(AP) -- FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Unusual alliances enable movement

Some unusual alliances are necessary for you to wiggle your fingers, researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Low dopamine levels during withdrawal promote relapse to smoking

Mark Twain said, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." Many smokers would agree that it's difficult to stay away from cigarettes. A new study in Biological Ps ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Will bubble-powered microrockets zoom through the human stomach?

Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor — which they term a "microrocket" — that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy source, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

GlaxoSmithKline says annual profits triple to £5.26 bln

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Tuesday that net profits more than tripled in 2011 compared with the previous year, as large efficiency savings offset falling revenues.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment for tuberculosis can be guided by patients' genetics

A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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