News tagged with drug metabolism

The future of metabolic engineering -- designer molecules, cells and microorganisms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will we one day design and create molecules, cells and microorganisms that produce specific chemical products from simple, readily-available, inexpensive starting materials? Will the synthetic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop CAD-Type tools for engineering RNA control systems

The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biological circuits for synthetic biology

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." ... Wes "Scoop" Nisker

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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How microbes take out the trash

(PhysOrg.com) -- The molecular machinery bacteria use to rid themselves of toxic substances including antimicrobial drugs has been studied in detail by a UA-led team of researchers. A better understanding ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Starting a new metabolic path: Researchers develop technique to help metabolic engineering

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efforts to engineer new metabolic pathways into microbes for the inexpensive production of valuable chemical products, such as biofuels or therapeutic drugs, should get a significant boost ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research increases understanding of drug metabolism

Research led by Wayne L. Backes, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that drug metabolism depends not only upon which enzymes ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New way to lose fat, keep the lean

Researchers reporting in the February 3rd issue of Cell Metabolism may have a new way to trick the body into consuming more energy. The target in this case is an enzyme that indirectly controls the activity of what the re ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been the focus of almost all drug research pursuing a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

'Fatostatin' is a turnoff for fat genes

A small molecule earlier found to have both anti-fat and anti-cancer abilities works as a literal turnoff for fat-making genes, according to a new report in the August 28th issue of the journal Chemistry and Biology, a Cell ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Urine samples could be used to predict responses to drugs, say researchers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers may be able to predict how people will respond to particular drugs by analysing their urine samples, suggest scientists behind a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gut hormone has 'remote control' on blood sugar

A gut hormone first described in 1928 plays an unanticipated and important role in the remote control of blood sugar production in the liver, according to a report in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. What's ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new way of the treating the flu: Approach targets both the H and N portions of the virus

(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens if the next big influenza mutation proves resistant to the available anti-viral drugs? This question is presenting itself right now to scientists and health officials this week ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Chip simulates metabolism of medicine in human body

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny electrochemical cell, developed by researchers of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, The Netherlands, is able to mimick the behaviour of medicine inside a human body. This chip ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New study shows how nanotechnology can help detect disease earlier

A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers shows a new way to precisely detect a single chemical at extremely low concentrations and high contamination.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New bioengineering prof uncovers cancer metabolism insights

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research from a new member of the bioengineering faculty at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering demonstrates that our cells metabolize nutrients in a very different manner than has ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0