Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable infectious disease. And yet, more than 10 million people fall ill with it every year, and more than 1.5 million people die.
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Finding new drugs—called "drug discovery"—is an expensive and time-consuming task. But a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can massively accelerate the process and do the job for a fraction of the ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Using health technology assessments from Germany and France, a study published in the BMJ by a team of Harvard researchers confirms a trend that has been apparent for some time: While in its first therapeutic indication about ...
Jul 6, 2023
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New drugs are often used not only for one disease (first approved indication) but also for other diseases (supplemental indications).
Jul 5, 2023
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Researchers from Griffith University's NatureBank and Metro North Health in Brisbane have found a natural product derived from a Queensland rainforest tree that may hold the key to treating and reversing life-threatening ...
Jul 5, 2023
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New research from Sanford Burnham Prebys has helped explain how melanoma evades the immune system and may guide the discovery of future therapies for the disease. The study found that a protein known to be active in immune ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Scientists hope to learn more about the earliest stages of human development using models of embryos created from stem cells.
Jul 3, 2023
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University of Canterbury Chemical and Process Engineering Professor Daniel Holland and his team are refining a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and plan to use it to measure the content and concentration ...
Jun 29, 2023
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New University of Otago, Christchurch, research has found that a legal drug—alcohol—causes more widespread harm to New Zealand society than other illegal drugs.
Jun 29, 2023
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Mutations in the KRAS gene are the major driver of pancreatic cancer. The resulting protein controls multiple signaling pathways involved in cell growth and survival. In cancer, the gene is mutated to be permanently "on," ...
Jun 29, 2023
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