News tagged with molecular compounds
New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Whitehead Institute scientists have developed a rapid, inexpensive drug-screening method that could be used to target diseases that until now have stymied drug developers, such as Parkinson's disease. This technique uses ...
Muscular dystrophy mystery solved; scientists move closer to MD solution
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Muscular dystrophy, which affects approximately 250,000 people in the United States, occurs when damaged muscle tissue is replaced with fibrous, bony or fatty tissue and loses function. While scientists have identified one ...
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Ahead of the games: Test will catch sports cheats on new endurance drugs
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now ...
Gene-altering compounds released from forest fires
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Scientists in Washington State are reporting the first discovery of potent mutagenic substances in smoke from forest fires that often sweep through huge stands of Ponderosa pine in the western United States ...
New platinum-phosphate compounds kill ovarian cancer cells
Nov 19, 2008 |
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A new class of compounds called phosphaplatins can effectively kill ovarian, testicular, head and neck cancer cells with potentially less toxicity than conventional drugs, according to a new study published this week in the ...
Researchers find candidates for new HIV drugs
Oct 13, 2009 |
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While studying an HIV protein that plays an essential role in AIDS progression, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered compounds that show promise as novel treatments for the disease.
Drug combinations key in treating neurodegenerative diseases
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Combining the benefits of multiple drugs in a single pill may hold the key to treating neurodegenerative diseases, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
Understanding a target of quinoline drugs
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The full details about the molecules and mechanisms that underlie the development of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus, remain to be discovered. One compound that may have a ...
Researchers looking at light-induced toxins in air and water
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Is the air we breathe on a daily basis slowly killing us? It may not be that severe, but the air we breathe and water we drink may be more harmful than we realize.
Small molecules block cancer gene
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Finding molecules that block the activity of the oncogene Stat 3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription) required screening literally millions of compounds, using computers that compared the structure of the cancer-causing ...
Compounds could be new class of cancer drugs
Feb 03, 2009 |
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A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has developed a group of chemical compounds that could represent a new class of drugs for treating cancer.
Evil-doers everywhere: Get a whiff of this
Feb 18, 2009 |
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The food you eat, the drugs you take, your state of mind, and your gender -- all these make your sweat unique. Tel Aviv University chemists may turn this fact into a new crime-fighting tool that would make ...
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