Lignans are low molecular weight polyphenolic compounds with important antitumor and antiviral properties. However, their low amounts in medicinal plants and complex structures make sustainable production through plant extraction ...
Biochemistry
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A team of chemists, biologists and microbiologists led by researchers in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to tweak an antimalarial drug and turn it into a potent antibiotic, part of a ...
Biochemistry
Mar 24, 2025
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MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by injecting them as a suspension of tiny crystals. Once under the skin, the crystals assemble into a drug "depot" that could last ...
Biochemistry
Mar 24, 2025
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Researchers have discovered that Daphne pseudomezereum (commonly known as Onishibari) contains a substance inhibiting replication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The plants were cultivated at the Medicinal Plant Garden ...
Biochemistry
Mar 20, 2025
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For the first time, scientists have identified promising drug candidates that bind irreversibly with a notoriously undruggable cancer protein target, permanently blocking it.
Biochemistry
Mar 20, 2025
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Using computational tools and virtual screening, researchers at the Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) have identified new inhibitors of the enzyme human 15-lipoxygenase-2 (h15-LOX-2). This protein plays ...
Biochemistry
Mar 19, 2025
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A new discovery about the slime ejected by velvet worms could revolutionize sustainable material design, according to a study by McGill University researchers. Their findings outline how a naturally occurring protein structure, ...
Biochemistry
Mar 19, 2025
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UPF researchers have led the creation of a computational simulator that is unique in the world to study one of the causes of chronic back pain, in the framework of research conducted in collaboration with the Hospital del ...
Biochemistry
Mar 18, 2025
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By unraveling the complex choreography of cellular machinery, Michigan State University researchers are helping identify the next generation of drug targets and cancer therapies.
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2025
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A team of materials scientists from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia via Morego, all in Italy, has found a way to use keratin to make a type of biodegradable ...
