Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies
Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating ...
Tag: Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Three-site study highlight effectiveness of FEND nasal calcium rich salts
Credit: Authors In a paper published in Molecular Frontiers Journal, researchers from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India study the effectiveness ...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B volume 10, issue 12 publishes
Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B The Journal of the Institute of Materia Medica, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and ...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B volume 10, issue 11 publishes
Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Special Issue: Tumor Microenvironment and Drug Delivery Guest Editors: Huile Gao, West China School of ...
Botulism breakthrough? Taming botulinum toxin to deliver therapeutics
Treatment reverses paralysis in mice; offers a general delivery platform for neurologic drugsCredit: Sicai Zhang/Dong Lab, Boston Children's Hospital While ...
New drug form may help treat osteoporosis, calcium-related disorders
Credit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A novel form of a drug used to treat osteoporosis that comes ...
Drug discovery study identifies promising new compound to open constricted airways
University of South Florida experts in airway bitter taste receptors and medicinal chemistry team up to advance a potential asthma ...
Blood pressure drug may be key to increasing lifespan, new study shows
Metolazone, a drug used to treat hypertension, activates a mitochondrial stress response that prolongs lifespan in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegansCredit: ...
Some states may lack facilities for administering COVID-19 vaccine to residents
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and West Health Policy Center develop mapping-tool to identify counties where residents may face ...
NUS researchers finds best combination of available therapies against COVID-19
Combination was uncovered from examining 12 potential drug candidates with over 530,0000 possible drug combinations within two weeksCredit: National University ...
Ability to predict C-diff mortality nearly doubled with new guidelines
University of Houston team assesses change to severity definitionsCredit: University of Houston Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the most common ...
Using light, red blood cells and a honey bee peptide to deliver therapeutic proteins
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01151 Protein therapies are often more potent and selective toward their biochemical ...
Vitamin boosts essential synthetic chemistry
Rice lab discovers light-driven catalyst forms olefins for drug, agrochemical manufacturingCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 8, 2020) - Inspired ...
Drug for rare disorder shows promise for treating herpes viruses
A drug currently prescribed to treat a rare enzyme deficiency can help cells clear the herpes simplex 1 and herpes ...
Shining a light on the weird world of dihydrogen phosphate anions
Credit: UNSW Sydney Scientists at UNSW Sydney, together with collaborators from Western Sydney University and The Netherlands, were surprised to ...
TTUHSC’s Sutton receives grant to continue work on potential lupus treatment
Credit: TTUHSC The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) recently named R. Bryan Sutton, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Cell ...
Artificial intelligence collaboration seeking to hasten COVID-19 insights
Credit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals and researchers have been confined ...
A new website for the essence of COINS
In-body hospitals changes the futureCredit: 2020 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine Summary Open a new website summarized COINS's vision on one ...
Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs
Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolutionCredit: William Grover When you take a time-release drug, you count ...
Can we harness a plant’s ability to synthesize medicinal compounds?
Knowledge could guide development of sustainable production methods for plant-based medicinesCredit: From Flora De Filipinas by Francisco Manuel Blanco in ...
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