Antidepressants are making their way into our lakes and rivers—and they're making freshwater fish less fazed by predators.
Ecology
Nov 30, 2017
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The team led by Professor Dr. Klaus Kümmerer has now succeeded in developing antibiotics of this class of substances that become innocuous in the environment by natural degradation.
Other
Nov 30, 2017
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Allergan, the drugmaker behind Botox, is using an unprecedented tactic to protect its valuable patents – angering lawyers and politicians, and keeping the price of its medicines high.
Business
Nov 21, 2017
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The development of a new technique for labelling the body's own transporters—exosomes—could have long term benefits in the treatment of life-threatening medical conditions, including cancer.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2017
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A fascinating insight paper, "Towards pesticidovigilance" published in Science today by Dr Alice Milner, Lecturer in Physical Geography at Royal Holloway and Professor Ian Boyd (School of Biology, University of St Andrews), ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2017
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Eli Lilly will cut 3,500 jobs and close some drug manufacturing and research facilities in a cost-cutting drive, the US pharmaceutical company announced Thursday.
Business
Sep 7, 2017
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Give your medicine a jolt. By using - electrochemistry - a technique that combines electricity and chemistry, future pharmaceuticals - including many of the top prescribed medications in the United States - soon may be easily ...
Materials Science
Aug 10, 2017
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Mostly, the chemical industry still follows very extensive procedures when producing active pharmaceutical ingredients and other complex substances. Often, each intermediate has to be produced in a separate fashion within ...
Materials Science
Aug 7, 2017
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The emergence of bacterial strains that are immune to last-line antibiotics poses an increasing threat to global health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that up to half a million people develop multidrug-resistant ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2017
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Yale University scientists have developed a novel chemical process that may lead to the creation of a new class of antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Jun 1, 2017
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