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Innovations in Forensic Examination of Seized Drugs and Forensic Toxicology

NewsMed interviews Michelle Peace on her Pittcon presentation entitled, "Innovations in Forensic Examination of Seized Drugs and Forensic Toxicology".

From Pittcon 15 Feb 2021

Researchers detect signs of depression in Spanish tweets

Researchers of the Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) from UPF and Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain, have identified behavioural and linguistic changes in tweets in Spanish published by users suffering from depression and who are taking medication to treat this disease.

15 Feb 2021

Immunomodulatory drugs improve the success rate of cancer therapies

Immunomodulatory drugs, including the Contergan derivatives lenalidomide and pomalidomide, have significantly improved the therapy of hematologic malignancies such as multiple myeloma.

15 Feb 2021

Liquid biopsy can help gauge the effectiveness of therapy for colorectal cancer

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrates that a liquid biopsy examining blood or urine can help gauge the effectiveness of therapy for colorectal cancer that has just begun to spread beyond the original tumor.

14 Feb 2021

SARS-CoV-2's resistance to remdesivir in vitro

A new preprint research paper posted to the bioRxiv server discusses the emergence of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, allowing it to escape the effects of the most commonly used antiviral drug, remdesivir.

14 Feb 2021

Poor and terminally ill Mexicans have less chance to get opioids intended for palliative care

If you're poor and terminally ill in southern Mexico, there's far less chance you'll get the painkillers you need for palliative care than your cousins in more prosperous regions, particularly those pharmacy-rich areas along Mexico-U.S. border, say UCLA researchers and colleagues who studied opioid dispensing levels across the country.

13 Feb 2021

Revolutionary drug combination shows potential for treatment of fatal childhood cancer

Every year around 20 Australian children die from the incurable brain tumor, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). The average age of diagnosis for DIPG is just seven years.

13 Feb 2021

Major antioxidant in green tea may increase levels of natural anti-cancer protein

An antioxidant found in green tea may increase levels of p53, a natural anti-cancer protein, known as the "guardian of the genome" for its ability to repair DNA damage or destroy cancerous cells.

13 Feb 2021

New type of drug significantly increases survival of bladder cancer patients

A new type of drug that helps target chemotherapy directly to cancer cells has been found to significantly increase survival of patients with the most common form of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III clinical trial led in the UK by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.

13 Feb 2021

FDA approves drug to reduce frequency of chemotherapy-induced bone marrow suppression

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Cosela (trilaciclib) as the first therapy in its class to reduce the frequency of chemotherapy-induced bone marrow suppression in adults receiving certain types of chemotherapy for extensive-stage (when the cancer has spread beyond the lungs) small cell lung cancer.

13 Feb 2021

Research provides insight into protein structures that could treat Huntington’s disease

In Huntington's disease, a faulty protein aggregates in brain cells and eventually kills them. Such protein aggregates could, in principle, be prevented with a heat shock protein. However, it is not well known how these proteins interact with the Huntington's disease protein.

12 Feb 2021

Star-shaped brain cells may play a key role in stuttering

Astrocytes -- star-shaped cells in the brain that are actively involved in brain function -- may play an important role in stuttering, a study led by a University of California, Riverside, expert on stuttering has found.

12 Feb 2021

Novel finding could lead to better treatments for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes

Monash University researchers have uncovered the barrier to β-cell (beta cell) regeneration that could pave the way for improved treatments for diabetes and diseases that involve organ and tissue damage.

12 Feb 2021

A novel approach to suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells

Inhibiting a key enzyme that controls a large network of proteins important in cell division and growth paves the way for a new class of drugs that could stop glioblastoma, a deadly brain cancer, from growing.

12 Feb 2021

Scientists demonstrate how glue points and sequence alignment information can flag residue SARS-CoV-2 variants

Researchers in the U.S. have demonstrated how dominant energetic landscape mappings or glue points, along with sequence alignment information can potentially identify key residue mutations and spike protein deletions tied with emerging variants.

12 Feb 2021

Webinar: High-Content Imaging on Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

The upcoming webinar 'Visualizing Human Stem Cell Dynamics by Multicolor, Multiday High-Content Microscopy' will take place on February 17, 11 AM EST / 5 PM CET.

From Yokogawa Electric Corporation 12 Feb 2021

Disrupting cancer cell cycle with two commercially available inhibitors causes tumor cell death

With two commercially available inhibitors, the cell cycle of the cancer cells in the childhood tumor neuroblastoma can be disrupted at a key point causing tumor cell death.

12 Feb 2021

Study: Life-long antiviral treatment appears to prevent viral transmission from mother to baby

Anti-retroviral drugs are a vital tool in the prevention and treatment of HIV. A new study of pregnant women in Tanzania shows that life-long antiviral treatment also seems to prevent viral transmission from mother to baby.

12 Feb 2021

Researchers identify protein sequences involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was established that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells by binding to the human protein ACE2, which plays a role in regulating blood pressure.

12 Feb 2021

Study reveals detailed map of glioblastoma in genetic, molecular detail

Glioblastoma is among the most aggressive and devastating of cancers. While rare compared with other cancers, it's the most common type of brain cancer.

12 Feb 2021

Drugs News and Research

Innovations in Forensic Examination of Seized Drugs and Forensic Toxicology

Researchers detect signs of depression in Spanish tweets

Immunomodulatory drugs improve the success rate of cancer therapies

Liquid biopsy can help gauge the effectiveness of therapy for colorectal cancer

SARS-CoV-2's resistance to remdesivir in vitro

Poor and terminally ill Mexicans have less chance to get opioids intended for palliative care

Revolutionary drug combination shows potential for treatment of fatal childhood cancer

Major antioxidant in green tea may increase levels of natural anti-cancer protein

New type of drug significantly increases survival of bladder cancer patients

FDA approves drug to reduce frequency of chemotherapy-induced bone marrow suppression

Research provides insight into protein structures that could treat Huntington’s disease

Star-shaped brain cells may play a key role in stuttering

Novel finding could lead to better treatments for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes

A novel approach to suppress the growth of glioblastoma cells

Scientists demonstrate how glue points and sequence alignment information can flag residue SARS-CoV-2 variants

Webinar: High-Content Imaging on Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

Disrupting cancer cell cycle with two commercially available inhibitors causes tumor cell death

Study: Life-long antiviral treatment appears to prevent viral transmission from mother to baby

Researchers identify protein sequences involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection

Study reveals detailed map of glioblastoma in genetic, molecular detail

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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