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 ...
Tag: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Vitamin boosts essential synthetic chemistry
Rice lab discovers light-driven catalyst forms olefins for drug, agrochemical manufacturingCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 8, 2020) - Inspired ...
Using targeted microbubbles to administer toxic cancer drugs
Credit: Please credit: Graphic: Dr Sunjie Ye, University of Leeds/Theranostics New research has shown how microbubbles carrying powerful cancer drugs ...
Reversible stickiness is something to smile about
Credit: Department of Organic Biomaterials,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) researchers report a cross-linker for dental cement that breaks ...
What makes psoriasis sore: Novel role of immune system in the disease
Scientists uncover another one of the complex immune-mediated mechanisms behind severe psoriasis lesionsCredit: Kazumitsu Sugiura from Fujita Health University Psoriasis ...
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 ...
The helix of life: New study shows how ‘our’ RNA stably binds to artificial nucleic acids
Credit: Yukiko Kamiya As medical research progresses, traditional treatment protocols are being rapidly exhausted. New approaches to treat diseases that ...
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 ...
New glue sticks easily, holds strongly, and is a gas to pull apart
Research expands number of temporary adhesivesCredit: Photo courtesy of Nicholas Blelloch. HANOVER, N.H. - December 2, 2020 - Temporary glues ...
SMART researchers develop customised targeting of bacteria using lysins
The discovery can help cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteriaCredit: Wei Lin Lee, SMART ...
Mechanism of action of chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 infection
The article by Dr. Alberto Boretti and colleagues is published in Coronaviruses, 2020Credit: Dr. Alberto Boretti, Dr. Bimal Banik, Dr. ...
Discover EBRAINS: A look inside Europe’s new platform for the brain
Credit: HBP / EBRAINS EBRAINS is an accelerator for European ambitions in multidisciplinary brain research, combining cutting-edge neuroscience, high-performance computing ...
Imagining perfect molecules using AI – a benchmarking system for generative chemistry
Insilico Medicine together with collaborators announces the publication of Molecular Sets (MOSES), a benchmarking system for generative chemistry modelsCredit: Insilico ...
New procedure will reduce the need for rare metals in chemical synthesis
Researchers from Kanazawa University are working to improve the long-term sustainability of pharmaceutical and other chemical synthesesCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, ...
German researchers compile world’s largest inventory of known plant species
Catalogue vastly expands global knowledge of plant diversityCredit: Swen Reichhold Leipzig could mean for the future of plant taxonomy what ...
New mechanism of pain control revealed
Discovery of a distinct group of astrocytes in the spinal cord overturns thinking on role of descending neurons in pain ...
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 ...
Team uses copper to image Alzheimer’s aggregates in the brain
Credit: Photo courtesy Hong-Jun Cho CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A proof-of-concept study conducted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease offers ...
New therapy for flu may help in fight against COVID-19
Credit: John Underwood/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new therapy for influenza virus infections that may also prove effective ...
Understanding frustration could lead to better drugs
Rice scientists' atomic resolution protein models reveal new details about protein bindingCredit: Illustration by Mingchen Chen/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. ...
