News tagged with molecule drugs

Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game that allows players to collaborate ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

By tracking water molecules, physicists hope to unlock secrets of life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Compared to any other liquid on Earth, water behaves in strange and unexpected ways, yet its unusual properties enable and protect life as we know it. By tracking individual water molecules in a "supercooled" ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Surprising link' leads toward a new antibiotic

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Scientists solve mystery of fragile stem cells

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the decade-old mystery of why human embryonic stem cells are so difficult to culture in the laboratory, providing scientists with useful new techniques and moving the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rapid, Inexpensive DNA Sequencing Moves Closer to Reality

As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great potential ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genre of sugar-coated 'quantum dots' for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of “quantum dots”— nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light — in the treatment of cancer ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Nanoparticle-delivered RNA interference drug stops head and neck cancer growth

(Phys.org) -- A nanoparticle drug delivery vehicle for small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA), that is already being tested in human clinical trials, now shows promise for the treatment of head and neck cancer. Dong Shin, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticle Cocktail Targets and Kills Tumors

A team of researchers from two of the National Cancer Institute's Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have teamed up to develop a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cells use water in nano-rotors to power energy conversion

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have provided the first atomic-level glimpse of the proton-driven motor from a major group of ATP synthases, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

DNA cages 'can survive inside living cells'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Oxford University have shown for the first time that molecular cages made from DNA can enter and survive inside living cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Supercomputing research opens doors for drug discovery

A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on the fast track to developing new drug treatments.

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Team reveals all three structures of single transporter protein

A team of researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Imperial College London have captured the 3D atomic models of a single transporter protein in each of its three main structural states, a goal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Anti-inflammatory effect of 'rotten eggs' gas

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter have synthesized a new molecule which releases hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the gas that gives rotten eggs their characteristic smell and which has recently been found to b ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Silk microneedles deliver controlled-release drugs painlessly

Bioengineers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed a new silk-based microneedle system able to deliver precise amounts of drugs over time and without need for refrigeration. The tiny needles can be fabricated ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast