News tagged with pharmaceutical agent

Planned coincidence: Antibody-based search for new chemical reactions

(Phys.org) -- Many discoveries are made by chance, but it is also possible to help it along: The chance of finding something interesting increases when the number of experiments rises. French researchers have ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

HP speeds drug discovery research with inkjet technology

HP today announced an innovative drug research application for its inkjet technology that enables pharmaceutical companies to more efficiently develop better drugs through vastly more precise dispensing of dosages.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team hopes to cut years off development time of new antibiotics

Eliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, two University of Houston (UH) professors are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. While current practices typically ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A powerful new technology to identify HIV inhibitors

Providing long-term HIV treatment for over 33 million infected individuals worldwide requires the continuous development of new HIV therapies. Virologists at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have developed a cell-based assay ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns

Scientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. With names like silver ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1