A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 23, 2018
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To stay ahead in the race against drug-resistant infections, scientists constantly search for and exploit vulnerabilities in deadly bacteria. Now, researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have ...
Biochemistry
Sep 18, 2013
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Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays ...
Biochemistry
Nov 23, 2011
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A new effort mapping 24-hr patterns of expression for thousands of genes in 12 different mouse organs – five years in the making – provides important clues about how the role of timing may influence the way drugs work ...
Biotechnology
Oct 27, 2014
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Therapeutics based on messenger RNA, or mRNA, can potentially treat a wide range of maladies, including cancer, genetic diseases, and as the world has learned in recent years, deadly viruses.
Bio & Medicine
Jul 4, 2022
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A new technique that will allow scientists to determine the effects of turning on and off a set of molecules involved in almost every cellular pathway, determine their downstream effects, and uncover new drug targets has ...
Biochemistry
Dec 13, 2016
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Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 6, 2011
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Some engineers find inspiration in the mechanics of bird flight and the architecture of bee nests. Others think much smaller.
Nanomaterials
Sep 22, 2021
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Researchers report that they have discovered - and now know how to exploit - an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to survive. The research team, from the University ...
Biochemistry
Feb 15, 2010
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Researchers have identified five enzymes that are essential to the survival of a parasitic worm that infects livestock worldwide and is a great threat to global food security. Two of these proteins are already being studied ...
Biotechnology
Aug 28, 2013
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