News tagged with natural products
E. coli engineered to produce important class of antibiotic, anti-cancer drugs
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken a major step forward in the field of metabolic engineering, successfully using the bacterium Escherichia coli to synthesize a clas ...
Fabled 'vegetable lamb' plant contains potential treatment for osteoporosis
Oct 14, 2009 |
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once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby sheep — produces substances that show promise in laboratory experiments as new treatments for osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease. That's the conclusion of a ...
New or not? Cracking cyclic natural products for new drugs
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already ...
Researchers find cancer-inhibiting compound under the sea
Aug 08, 2008 |
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University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers have discovered a marine compound off the coast of Key Largo that inhibits cancer cell growth in laboratory tests, a finding they hope will fuel the development of new ...
A newly discovered chemical weapon in poison frogs' arsenal
Jun 04, 2009 |
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New research documents a surprising chemical weapon used by some Amazonian poison frogs. The study identified for the first time a family of poisons never before known to exist in these brightly colored creatures ...
'Dung of the devil' plant roots point to new swine flu drugs
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Scientists in China have discovered that roots of a plant used a century ago during the great Spanish influenza pandemic contains substances with powerful effects in laboratory experiments in killing the H1N1 ...
