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...This technology could lead to production of modern medicines that will also be accessible to poor populations in developing countries ?which is where these medicines are needed the most." The results could also lead to the development of more effective vaccines. By...Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases
...ly information from genetic research into valuable medicines for HIV/AIDS, heart disease and the prevention of organ rejection," said Martin Mackay, Ph.D., Senior Vice President Worldwide Research & Technology, Pfizer Research & Development. "But these advances have only scratched the surface of possib...Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster
...test students to join our research team to advance medicines that will improve the well-being of people everywhere." BellSouth worked closely with Georgia Tech and IBM to design a unique, reliable hosting environment to support the high power density supercomputing cluster. "With our hosting background, we...World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says
...on profit rather than the imperative to distribute medicines to those who need them most. "Big pharmaceutical companies have a well-established track record of being very difficult when it comes to making things available to those who can't pay for them," he said. If anti-aging technologies are distributed i...Viagra's hidden help for wildlife
Chinese men spurn traditional virility medicines Chinese men are selectively switching from tradit...ion. So despite their history of using traditional medicines and their alleged suspicions of Western medicine, the men we interviewed chose the product that work...Scientists move forward understanding of schizophrenia
...ve been working hard to help in the development of medicines for treating asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by inhibiting very similar enzymes to PDE4B. It has been so exciting to work together with the Edinburgh and Merck groups in finding this new link between the gene coding for PDE4B and sc...UK is first to administer new anti-clotting technology
...re entrusting us to pioneer the next-generation of medicines and devices to improve healthcare," said Dr. David Moliterno, professor and vice chair of medicine, and chief, division of cardiovascular medicine, UK College of Medicine, and co-director of the UK Gill Heart Institute. "Our goal is simple: we want...Rutgers to lead $52.7 million protein research program
... developing the next generation of diagnostics and medicines for treating human diseases," Montelione said. NESG is a Rutgers-led collaborative research partnership of more than 15 principal investigators and 120 scientists at nine universities and other research facilities. Approximately $20 million will fun......anding could eventually lead to the development of medicines that would "reset" the biological clock so travelers could adjust much more quickly to rapid time zone changes. Most people require about two-and-a-half days to adjust to a six-hour flight from Europe to the United States, and even longer after an ea...UCSD study clarifies insulin's role in blocking release of energy in patients with type II diabetes
...ring down insulin levels in Type II diabetes using medicines called insulin sensitizers, so that the body becomes more sensitive to using its own insulin, rather than compensating for insulin resistance by making more. In order to understand the mechanisms of insulin resistance present in Type II diabetes, th...Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy
...though there is no direct evidence that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk, some ...ientists on the BCERF staff. "Just because herbal medicines are 'natural' products does not mean that they are safer than conventional medicines," he said. "The...Women cautioned against using herbal supplements
...though there is no direct evidence that any herbal medicines can increase or decrease breast cancer risk, some ...ientists on the BCERF staff. "Just because herbal medicines are 'natural' products does not mean that they are safer than conventional medicines," he said. "The...Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections
...mes they are caused by viruses. There are specific medicines to treat some viral infections and there are defin...e proper use of antiviral medicines. Although such medicines have been developed for some respiratory viruses, they are not used often as therapy because they ar...New Look at DNA Hints at Origin of UV Damage
...approach should improve our ability to develop new medicines to treat such diseases." Aballay has used the C. elegans, a worm commonly found in the soil, as a model to study the virulence mechanisms of other bacteria besides plague. The worm is an ideal model for genetic studies, he said, because it takes onl...Novel plague virulence factor identified
...approach should improve our ability to develop new medicines to treat such diseases." Aballay has used the C. elegans, a worm commonly found in the soil, as a model to study the virulence mechanisms of other bacteria besides plague. The worm is an ideal model for genetic studies, he said, because it takes onl...Comparison of Cocaine, Methamphetamine ‘Highs?Finds Differences
... surprising our medical communities and lifesaving medicines being extracted from jungle plants, we still don't know what's under our feet. The bacterial communities of every day soil are intensely complex, so diverse and densely populated, that normal measurement methods are overwhelmed. "With improved ana...Using computers and DNA to count bacteria
... surprising our medical communities and lifesaving medicines being extracted from jungle plants, we still don't know what's under our feet. The bacterial communities of every day soil are intensely complex, so diverse and densely populated, that normal measurement methods are overwhelmed. "With improved ana...Malaria killing a million a year
...research initiatives are needed for developing new medicines and safe, new insecticides." ...First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology
...ve down drug manufacturing costs, which could make medicines and health insurance plans less expensive for all of us." ......for the design of drugs. Indeed, about half of the medicines on the market target such GPCRs. In the last few years, Chun and his colleagues have been pursuing basic research on LPA and its receptors to try to understand their roles, particularly in the brain -- looking, for instance, at the effect of LPA on ...