News tagged with anti malarial drugs

Synthetic biology can help extend anti-malaria drug effectiveness

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2




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New process would make anti-malarial drug less costly

Scientists are reporting development of a new, higher-yield, two-step, less costly process that may ease supply problems and zigzagging prices for the raw material essential for making the mainstay drug for ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Funding secures the future of Australian Synchrotron

A $95-million rescue package for the world-class Australian Synchrotron research centre will ensure local scientists can “remain at the forefront of the highly competitive world of fundamental and applied ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists characterize protein essential to survival of malaria parasite

A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Analysis reveals malaria, other diseases as ancient, adaptive and persistent foes

One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present long before ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New advanced biofuel as an alternative to diesel fuel

Researchers with the DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace today's standard fuel for diesel engines but would be clean, green, renewable ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Scientists invent new way to disarm malaria parasite

A novel technique to "tame" the malaria parasite, by forcing it to depend on an external supply of a vital chemical, has been developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-San ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nature reaches for the high-hanging fruit

In the first study of its kind, researchers have used tools of paleontology to gain new insights into the diversity of natural plant chemicals. They have shown that during the evolution of these compounds nature doesn't settle ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New malaria protein structure upends theory of how cells grow and move

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Millions in malaria drugs stolen

(AP) -- A global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years, vastly exceeding the levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modern targeted drug plus old malaria pill serve a 1-2 punch in advanced cancer patients

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may have found a way to turn an adaptive cellular response into a liability for cancer cells. When normal cells are starved for food, they chew up existing ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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