NIH and Lilly to generate public resource of approved and investigational medicines
The National Institutes of Health and Eli Lilly and Company will generate a publicly available resource to profile the effects of thousands of approved and investigational medicines in a variety of sophisticated disease-relevant ...
Medications
Mar 13, 2012 |
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How open source could help malaria treatment
In open source drug discovery all data and ideas are freely and immediately shared, and anyone may participate at any level.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Solving mystery of how sulfa drugs kill bacteria yields 21st century drug development target
More than 70 years after the first sulfa drugs helped to revolutionize medical care and save millions of lives, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have determined at an atomic level the mechanism these medications ...
Medical research
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Japan's DSP to buy US cancer start-up for $2.6 bn
Japanese drugs giant Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma will buy US biotechnology cancer specialist Boston Biomedical for a price that could hit $2.6 billion, the companies announced Thursday.
Cancer
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Comparing antimalarial drugs and their effects over the Plasmodium lifecycle
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Michael Delves of Imperial College London, UK and colleagues compare the activity of 50 current and experimental antimalarials against liver, sexual blood, and mosquito stages of selected human ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Tuberculosis researchers find answer to 30-year-old puzzle
(Medical Xpress) -- After three decades of searching, the random screening of a group of compounds against the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has led scientists to a eureka discovery that breaks through the fortress that ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 21, 2012 |
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New drug extends survival in patients with drug-resistant prostate cancer
A new drug, MDV3100, is improving the survival rate in men with advanced prostate cancer, results of a large, phase III clinical trial show. The drug is designed to block a type of cellular receptor that drives progression ...
Cancer
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Zebrafish may help speed drug discovery
Tiny zebrafish just may give scientists one solution to information overload in the search for new drugs therapies.
Medical research
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Researchers find potential target for treating metastatic cancer
Finding ways to counteract or disrupt the invasive nature of cancer cells, called "metastasis," has been a long-term goal of cancer researchers. Now, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have identified an ...
Cancer
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Researchers develop more effective way to discover and test potential cancer drugs
Researchers have created a new phenotypic screening platform that better predicts success of drugs developed to prevent blood vessel tumor growth when moving out of the lab and onto actual tumors.
Cancer
Nov 13, 2011 |
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Researchers find surprising role for enzyme in tumor cell division and new drug to combat it
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center have identified a new drug discovery approach enabling the destruction of the most highly ...
Cancer
Nov 13, 2011 |
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Molecule serves as a key in some protein interactions
Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified an unexpected mechanism facilitating some protein interactions that are the workhorses of cells and, in the process, identified ...
Medical research
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Pfizer collaborate to speed drug discovery
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) is the latest research organization to partner with Pfizer, Inc. as part of Pfizer's commitment to transforming research and development through ...
Medical research
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Scientists discover new drug candidates for cystic fibrosis and other diseases
A new discovery by Californian scientists may lead to a pharmaceutical breakthrough for a wide range of illnesses that involve the hydration of cells that line the inner surfaces of our body's organs and tissues. In a new ...
Medications
Nov 01, 2011 |
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The tangled web in Alzheimer's protein deposits is more complex than once thought
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health in the United States have made an important discovery that should forever change the scope and direction of Alzheimer's research. Specifically, they have discovered that the ...
Neuroscience
Nov 01, 2011 |
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