Medications
Why some medications are swallowed while others are injected
When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain?
Jun 20, 2022
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Medications
Why ketamine is a speedster antidepressant
Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given for a limited amount of time because of its many side ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Medications
New molecule holds promise in potential therapies for cancer and rare diseases
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the Italian Institute of Technology have developed a new molecule, ALY101, that shows promising anti-cancer activity against a wide range of tumor cell types and in ...
Apr 6, 2022
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Health informatics
Using convolutional neural networks to analyze medical imaging
COVID-19 remains a significant challenge the world over. Research in the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, discusses how X-ray images and CT (computerized tomography) scans can reveal much about ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Medications
Developing drugs with the aid of artificial intelligence
Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that can help make drug design cheaper and faster. His Ph.D. defense is on 15 ...
Feb 9, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Bench-to-bedside drug design could lead to new Alzheimer's disease treatments
An international team of scientists and pharmaceutical collaborators has made a breakthrough "bench to bedside" discovery, ten years in the making, which they hope will advance the future treatment of Alzheimer's disease ...
Nov 26, 2021
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Medications
How an antibiotic acts as an antiviral, hitting the COVID-19 virus with a three-pronged attack
New research published in the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design describes a novel lipopeptide antibiotic that can inhibit the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. The compound, ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Neuroscience
Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxiety in monkeys, hold promise for humans
Using a technique that could point to a new way to help people with severe anxiety and other treatment-resistant psychiatric illnesses, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison successfully dialed down anxious ...
May 12, 2021
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Medications
Certain antibiotics can prevent the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells
The Drug Design and Molecular Topology Unit group of the University of Valencia has shown that certain macrolide antibiotics (used in respiratory tract infections), including clarithromycin and azithromycin, can prevent the ...
Apr 26, 2021
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Medical research
Neutrons reveal unpredicted binding between SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis C antiviral drug
Scientists have found new, unexpected behaviors when SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—encounters drugs known as inhibitors, which bind to certain components of the virus and block its ability to reproduce.
Mar 23, 2021
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