News tagged with chemical inhibitors

Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New inhibitors of a cancer-causing protein may lead to targeted therapeutics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Markus Seeliger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and collaborators at Harvard University, have developed and ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create natural Alzheimer's-fighting compound in lab

Scientists at Yale University have developed the first practical method to create a compound called huperzine A in the lab. The compound, which occurs naturally in a species of moss found in China, is an enzyme inhibitor ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New class of compounds offers great potential for research and drug development

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have identified a class of compounds that could be a boon to basic research and drug discovery.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computer modeling used to study protein involved with cancer, aging and chronic disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new biophysical and biochemical study may lead to better understanding of how structural flexibility controls the interaction of a protein that is closely involved with cancer, aging and other chronic diseases ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fluorescent compounds make tumors glow

A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form - before they turn deadly - and signal their transition to aggressive cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disrupting a destructive duo: Researchers inhibit cancer proteins

A research team led by U of T Mississauga scientists has developed a new way to split up a dangerous pair of cancer proteins, a finding that could ultimately lead to chemotherapy that is more effective and has fewer side ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3