News tagged with protease inhibitors

Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New molecule has potential to help treat genetic diseases and HIV

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have created a molecule that's so good at tangling itself inside the double helix of a DNA sequence that it can stay there for up to 16 days before ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US regulators approve new hepatitis C drug

US regulators on Friday approved the first new treatment for hepatitis C in more than a decade, a Merck pharmaceutical known as Victrelis, to be taken with the current two-drug regimen.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

US panel gives nod to Merck hepatitis C drug

A US government advisory committee on Wednesday unanimously voted to urge the Food and Drug Administration to approve a new drug made by Merck to fight hepatitis C, a disease which attacks the liver.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First-ever covalent irreversible inhibition of a protease central to hepatitis C infection

Avila Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel targeted covalent drugs, has published research in Nature Chemical Biology demonstrating the first-ever selective irreversible inhibition of a viral protea ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Putting the brakes on drug-resistant HIV

(PhysOrg.com) -- HIV-1 protease inhibitors were added as a component of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the mid-1990s, and have played a key role in that treatment regimen ever since. However, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers restore missing protein in rare genetic brain disorder

UCSF researchers have successfully used protease inhibitors to restore to normal levels a key protein involved in early brain development. Reduced levels of that protein have been shown to cause the rare brain disorder lissencephaly, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

HIV-1 protease inhibitor induced oxidative stress in pancreatic B-cells: thymoquinone protection

Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana have discovered that the HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs), such as nelfinavir included in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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