News tagged with toxic drugs

Research team gives drug dropouts a second chance

(Phys.org) -- A cross-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland has designed a molecular container that can hold drug molecules and increase their solubility, in one case up to nearly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Novel nanoparticles communicate to target tumors more efficiently

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, researchers have been working to develop nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors, minimizing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. However, even with the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gold used as safe driver of cancer drug

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles can be used as delivery vehicles for platinum anticancer drugs, improving targeting and uptake into cells, according to research published in this month's edition of the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors

Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In the brain, 'ORMOSIL' nanoparticles hold promise as a potential vehicle for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the images of fruit flies, clusters of neurons are all lit up, forming a brightly glowing network of highways within the brain.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Safer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Nanotechnology may lead to new treatment of liver cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology may open a new door on the treatment of liver cancer, according to a team of Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They used molecular-sized bubbles filled with chemotherapy drugs to ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles working in harmony

For decades, researchers have been working to develop nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors, minimizing the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. However, even with the best of these nanoparticles, only ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Researchers identify two FDA approved drugs that may fight HIV

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center have identified two drugs that, when combined, may serve as an effective treatment for HIV.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles deliver one-two therapeutic punch to kill tumor cells

The standard approach to cancer therapy today is to mix and match chemotherapy drugs in order to attack tumors in multiple ways. Now, two separate teams of investigators have demonstrated that using nanoparticles to deliver ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction

A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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System to deliver organ transplant drug -- without harmful side effects

A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmful side effects, is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Fresh Pot of Tea Strikes Anticancer Gold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More i ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers watch amyloid plaques form

Researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) and Osaka University applied a new approach to take a close look at amyloid plaque formation, a process that plays important roles in Alzheimer's disease. The technique ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Toxic chromium found in Chicago's drinking water

Chicago's first round of testing for a toxic metal called hexavalent chromium found that levels in local drinking water are more than 11 times higher than a health standard California adopted last month.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3