Designing and repurposing cell receptors
Credit: Daniel Keri, EPFL Called the "second secret of life", allostery is one of the most fundamental processes of biology ...
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We love coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood
Credit: Photo by Steven Ward, OSU Extension and Experiment Station Communications. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University may ...
New flu drug drives drug resistance in influenza viruses
Credit: CDC/Michael Shaw, Doug Jordan MADISON - On January 31, 2019, an 11-year old boy in Japan went to a ...
Periodontal disease: Patent for new treatment method
Credit: MLU/faculty marceting NF1 New biodegradable rods promise to provide better treatment for periodontal disease. Researchers from the Institute of ...
Heating techniques could improve treatment of macular degeneration
Macular degeneration can lead to vision loss, with treatments sometimes ineffective; this may be improved with thermally induced fluid mixingCredit: ...
UTSA to unlock the power of sulfur in future drug design
Credit: UTSA Organosulfur compounds are widely present in our bodies and the natural environment. They are found in onions, shallots ...
Dozens of potential new antibiotics discovered with free online app
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new web tool speeds the discovery of drugs to kill ...
Metabolic syndrome: New use for an old drug
The syndrome, which affects more than 35% of the over-50 population in Western countries, could be treated with Ibrutinib, a ...
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts
Credit: Sune Levin and Nature Communications Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have ...
From plants, UVA extracts a better way to determine what our genes do
New technique to help explore genetic diseases, benefit drug developmentCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Scientists at the University of ...
Hospital disinfectants struggling to kill C. diff bacteria colonies
Clorox comes close, but none completely eliminates superbugCredit: University of Houston The deadly and notoriously stubborn superbug, Clostridioides difficile (C. ...
Tumor-specific therapy targets ovarian cancer
UConn and UNC startup, Nami Therapeutics, develops nanotechnologies for targeted cancer therapyCredit: (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo) Nami Therapeutics Corporation, which gets ...
New approach uses light to stabilize proteins for study
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Researchers report they have developed a new technique that uses light ...
Dynamics of silk proteins are key to outstanding stability of spider silk as biomaterial
Interdisciplinary study clarifies role of protein dynamics mediated by the amino acid methionineCredit: Ill./©: Benedikt Goretzki, Ute Hellmich Spider silk ...
Vicinal reaction: A radical strategy for linking three organic groups together
Kanazawa University researchers design a radical reaction to build highly functionalized ketones, installing two new carbon-carbon bonds at adjacent positions ...
News about drug delivery
Credit: (Picture: Ann-Christin Pöppler) Nanocapsules and other containers can transport drugs through a patient's body directly to the origin of ...
Salt helps proteins move on down the road
Rice chemists identify hidden aspects of protein-separation process to simplify drug manufactureCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) ...
IKBFU researchers have discovered another natural antioxidant — alder bark
An alder bark may become a great source of anti-aging and anti-disease natural antioxidantsCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University An ...
New way to wrap liquid drops could improve drug delivery
Credit: BRIAN CALDWELL Researchers have developed a faster, cheaper way to coat liquid medication, an invention that could improve how ...
A compound effective to chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells identified
Credit: Hokkaido University A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs ...