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Research findings open door to promising HIV treatments

New research provides details of how the structure of the HIV-1 virus is assembled, findings that offer potential new targets for treatment.

9 Aug 2018

Physical activity can help reduce risk of heart disease in older adults

Adults in their early 60s, who spend less time sitting and more time engaged in light to vigorous physical activity, benefit with healthier levels of heart and vessel disease markers, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

9 Aug 2018

New drug makes rats to self-administer alcohol less frequently

Alcohol use disorders can have devastating effects on a person's health, relationships and finances. Yet for some, the feeling they get when taking a drink temporarily outweighs these other concerns.

9 Aug 2018

New sensor allows scientists to measure cancer cell's response to chemotherapy drug

MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor that lets them see inside cancer cells and determine whether the cells are responding to a particular type of chemotherapy drug.

8 Aug 2018

Taking cholesterol-busting pills can effectively treat brutal PAP

Researchers report in Nature Communications they figured out why air sacs in the lungs clog up with a thick substance called surfactant in a brutal disease called Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis, and they show taking cholesterol-busting pills called statins can effectively treat the disease.

7 Aug 2018

Scientists develop a way to deliver curcumin as an anti-cancer agent

Researchers have developed a way of delivering curcumin so that it can be effective as a therapeutic agent for cancer.

7 Aug 2018

Silencing of GULP1 gene expression plays important role in ovarian carcinogenesis

Johns Hopkins researchers in collaboration with Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company based in Rockville Maryland, identify that silencing of the GULP1 gene expression by methylation plays an important role in ovarian carcinogenesis.

7 Aug 2018

Scientists create new tool to precisely control 3D architecture of linkages in drugs

When it comes to certain molecules, shape makes all the difference. The shape of limonene, for instance, a compound produced by citrus fruits, determines whether it tastes like orange juice or turpentine.

7 Aug 2018

Study: Potential new class of drugs may lower heart disease risk by targeting gut microbes

Cleveland Clinic researchers have designed a potential new class of drugs that may reduce cardiovascular risk by targeting a specific microbial pathway in the gut.

7 Aug 2018

Researchers find ways to render curcumin soluble and deliver it to infected tumors

In India and other countries in Southeast Asia, curcumin is often used as a spice in cooking, particularly chicken or fish. It is known for its therapeutic effect and as a way to kill germs present in raw meet.

7 Aug 2018

Red blood cells contribute to cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes

Harmful effects of substances secreted from red blood cells could explain the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes, the results of two new studies conducted at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden indicate.

6 Aug 2018

Scientists develop novel peptide drug that could potentially stop development of liver cancer

A research team led by scientists from the Cancer Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore has developed a novel peptide drug called FFW that could potentially stop the development of hepatocellular carcinoma or primary liver cancer.

2 Aug 2018

High Throughput Biophysical Screening for Development and Formulation of Biologics

In this interview, John Champagne, Ph.D. Senior Applications Scientist and Northeast Regional Manager for Wyatt Technology, talks to News-Medical about

From Waters | Wyatt Technology 1 Aug 2018

New AI approach can teach itself to design new drug molecules from scratch

An artificial-intelligence approach created at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy can teach itself to design new drug molecules from scratch and has the potential to dramatically accelerate the design of new drug candidates.

1 Aug 2018

Molecule News and Research

Research findings open door to promising HIV treatments

Physical activity can help reduce risk of heart disease in older adults

New drug makes rats to self-administer alcohol less frequently

New sensor allows scientists to measure cancer cell's response to chemotherapy drug

Taking cholesterol-busting pills can effectively treat brutal PAP

Scientists develop a way to deliver curcumin as an anti-cancer agent

Silencing of GULP1 gene expression plays important role in ovarian carcinogenesis

Scientists create new tool to precisely control 3D architecture of linkages in drugs

Study: Potential new class of drugs may lower heart disease risk by targeting gut microbes

Researchers find ways to render curcumin soluble and deliver it to infected tumors

Red blood cells contribute to cardiovascular diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes

Scientists develop novel peptide drug that could potentially stop development of liver cancer

High Throughput Biophysical Screening for Development and Formulation of Biologics

New AI approach can teach itself to design new drug molecules from scratch

Researchers engineer three cell lines to produce nonproprietary versions of NISTmAb

Researchers discover how chronic infections can outsmart the immune system

Scientists find people's assumptions about DNA repair after CRISPR editing to be wrong

Researchers describe strategy used by Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells

Researchers investigate new treatment that is effective against recurrent breast cancers

LYVE-1 protein on macrophages found to be key to artery health

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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