News tagged with pharmacological properties

Organometallic compounds as new drugs? Cobalt-containing aspirin complex with potential anti-tumor properties

Despite considerable progress in modern chemotherapy, there remains a large demand for innovative anti-tumor agents. A new approach involves modeling the pharmacological properties of established drugs with organometallic ...

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Mechanical properties of stem cells can foretell what they will become

To become better healers, tissue engineering need a timely and reliable way to obtain enough raw materials: cells that either already are or can become the tissue they need to build. In a new study, Brown ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Research reveals novel transport mechanism for large ribonucleoproteins

The movement of genetic materials, such as RNA and ribosomes, from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a critical component in a cell's ability to make the proteins necessary for essential biological functions. Until now, it ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Seeking HIV treatment clues in the neem tree

Tall, with dark-green pointy leaves, the neem tree of India is known as the "village pharmacy." As a child growing up in metropolitan New Delhi, Sonia Arora recalls on visits to rural areas seeing villagers using neem bark ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pacific Ocean natural products isolated from marine mollusks, sponges can reverse multidrug resistance in cancer cells

(Phys.org) -- Many marine natural products show anticancer activity, but some can reverse multidrug resistance in cancer cells. A new investigation by Robert J. Capon of the University of Queensland correlates ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Ordered planar polymers created for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists under the direction of ETH Zurich have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. They succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Biocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals

Quantum dots, small semiconductor nanoparticles that fluoresce brightly with sharply defined colors, have tremendous promise as biomedical imaging agents except for one problem—most are made from potentially hazardous ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Triton resource helps 'track' how kinesin molecules move

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in collaboration with several universities in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Poland, have developed a new picture of how kinesin ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New class of drugs for the reversible inhibition of proteasomes

As the "recycling plant" of the cell, the proteasome regulates vitally important functions. When it is inhibited, the cell chokes on its own waste. Cancer cells, in particular, are very sensitive because they ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Research paper on cancer drug accorded 'VIP' status

A paper on the anti-cancer drug Irosustat, designed by researchers at the University of Bath, has been awarded 'Very Important Paper' status by the medicinal chemistry journal ChemMedChem, including a spec ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Flowing structures in soft crystals

What is common to blood, ink and gruel? They are all liquids in which tiny particles are suspended – so called “colloids”. In some of these liquids, the particles form groups (clusters), which ...

Physics / General Physics

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