News tagged with pharmaceutical compounds

New chemical reaction holds promise for drug development

A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has devised a new method for making complex molecules. The reaction they have come up with should enable chemists to synthesize new ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria convert wastewater chemicals into toxic form

(PhysOrg.com) -- While traces of pharmaceutical compounds are commonly present in wastewater, interactions with bacteria during the treatment process could transform them from non-toxic to toxic forms, a new ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New 'genome mining' technique streamlines discovery from nature

A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug discovery, Netflix style?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last 10 years, the growth of the Internet has made ranking algorithms one of the hottest topics in computer science. The most famous ranking algorithm is Google's, which determines ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already existing drugs

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New or not? Cracking cyclic natural products for new drugs

Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hypertension and cholesterol medications present in water released into the St. Lawrence River

A study conducted by Université de Montréal researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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