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Nature Chemical Biology (also known as Nat. Chem. Biol.) published by the Nature Publishing Group, USA, is an American scientific journal publishing significant new research at the interface between chemistry and biology . The journal was launched in June 2005.

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Blocking biofilms: Alzheimer's research sheds light on potential treatments for urinary tract infections

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections (UTIs), but that's what scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...


New imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A recently devised method of imaging the chemical communication and warfare between microorganisms could lead to new antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and anti-cancer drugs, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.


Understanding a cell's split personality aids synthetic circuits (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

As scientists work toward making genetically altered bacteria create living "circuits" to produce a myriad of useful proteins and chemicals, they have logically assumed that the single-celled organisms would always respond ...


Scientists open doors to diagnosis of emphysema

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Chronic inflammatory lung diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema are a major global health problem, and the fourth leading cause of death and disability in developed countries, with smoking accounting for 90% of the ...


Researchers identify new drug target for Kaposi's sarcoma

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family ...


Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics

Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers outline today a new approach in the potential development of drugs to counter a cellular defect that triggers Parkinson’s and other diseases.


New tag could enable more detailed structural studies of mammalian proteins

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To say our genes are resourceful is a gross understatement. Through ingenious combinations of a paltry 20 amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, genes engineer all of the tissues and organs that ...


Vibrio cholerae

Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...


Compounds could be new class of cancer drugs

Chemistry /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.


Researchers disrupt biochemical system involved in cancer, degenerative disease

Researchers disrupt biochemical system involved in cancer, degenerative disease

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created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Screening a chemical library of 200,000 compounds, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified two new classes that can be used to study and possibly manipulate a cellular pathway involved ...