Chemists at Rice University, partially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, have developed a synthetic version of a rare molecule extracted from poppies called setigerumine I. The molecule could become a component ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Researchers have turned a fungus into a disease-curing factory through modern genetic engineering and patience. The natural antibiotic is a promising cure for a neglected tropical disease called human African trypanosomiasis, ...
Apr 4, 2019
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Fresh insights into the processes that control brain cell production could pave the way for treatments for brain cancer and other brain-related disorders.
Apr 11, 2014
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Researchers at Umeå University have identified drugs targeting infections of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei and are thereby well on the way to find a cure against African sleeping sickness. This is the kernel of a thesis, ...
Nov 6, 2013
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Aileron Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing first-in-class therapeutics based on its proprietary Stapled Peptide drug platform, announced today the publication of preclinical ...
Aug 15, 2013
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Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven have discovered a new target molecule for the development of a treatment against Alzheimer's disease. There is currently no cure for this disease. Many candidate drugs fail because they also ...
Dec 3, 2012
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Atherosclerosis – the hardening of arteries that is a primary cause of cardiovascular disease and death – has long been presumed to be the fateful consequence of complicated interactions between overabundant cholesterol ...
Sep 27, 2012
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A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has identified a new metabolic pathway for controlling brain inflammation, suggesting strategies for treating it.
Oct 20, 2011
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In a paper published today in Diabetologia, a team at Joslin Diabetes Center, headed by Mary R. Loeken, PhD, has identified the enzyme AMP kinase (AMPK) as key to the molecular mechanism that significantly increases the risk ...
Oct 17, 2011
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