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July 28, 2006
Tom Westgate |
Radioactive Scorpion Venom Stings Brain Tumours Scorpion venom carries a nasty sting for brain tumour cells. A peptide based on chlorotoxin, found in the venom of the Giant Yellow Israeli Scorpion, has been used to target glioma, a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2014
Maria Burke |
Renewed focus on dementia checked by drug challenges The risks and barriers for companies working in dementia are huge, but so too, potentially, are the rewards, says Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK. |
Technology Research News
July 27, 2005 |
Baited molecule fights cancer Many teams of researchers are working on ways to use nanotechnology to deliver anticancer drugs directly to cancerous tissue. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2008
Olivia Walker |
Engineered antibodies could cut chemotherapy risks US scientists have cut the side-effects of cancer treatment in animal trials by carefully controlling the number of drug molecules attached to the antibodies used for chemotherapy. |
Chemistry World
January 17, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Nanomachines to Treat Cancer Scientists at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) have signed a deal with a private investment firm to develop and market 'nanomachines' to treat cancer. |
Chemistry World
December 16, 2015
James Sudlow |
Cracking cocaine's secret to sneaking into the brain Up until now, it was though that cocaine had to be deprotonated to penetrate the blood -- brain barrier. A team uncovered that conformation and hydration were far more significant. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
10 High-Tech Health Breakthroughs Coming Soon to Your Body Scientists reveal their research on future medical technology devices and alternative medicine delivery systems. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2006
Jason McKinnie |
Smaller is Better Everybody has heard about using nanotechnology in drug delivery, but not many people - even specialists in drug development - know quite where the new technology fits in. |
Chemistry World
September 6, 2011
Sarah Houlton |
Dimerised Drug Leads Two Pronged Attack on HIV A new strategy employing antiviral drug dimers might lead to a way to get HIV drugs into the brain and tackle a viral reservoir. |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2011
Carl Saxton |
Targeting memory loss A new treatment for Alzheimer's disease has been developed by Canadian and US scientists. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Jeffrey T. Borenstein |
Flexible Microsystems Deliver Drugs Through the Ear A microelectromechanical systems-based microfluidic implant could open up many difficult-to-treat diseases to drug therapy |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2009
Michael Gross |
DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise. |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Ten Year Setback for Obesity Control The race for an effective appetite-suppressing, anti-obesity drug has been held back by disappointing results from a human clinical trial. The findings underline the complexity of human obesity, conclude the researchers, and suggest it could be many years before a drug gets to market. |
Chemistry World
June 28, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Antimicrobial nanoparticles may help fight brain infections Antimicrobial nanoparticles that can cross the, almost impermeable, blood-brain barrier have been created by Asian researchers. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Josh Howgego |
Small molecules open gates to the brain New tools have been developed which make it possible to chemically shut down nerve cells in the brain at will and study the effects on behavior. The tools - modified ion channels - mean the causal relationship between individual nerves and behavior can be directly studied. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2011
Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Scientific American
January 17, 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
A Stroke for Stem Cells The brain becomes a target in stem cell clinical trials. |
Bio-IT World
May 19, 2004 |
Special Delivery TAT tagging has aroused keen interest in biotech. |
Chemistry World
June 3, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Across the barrier for tumor imaging A probe that can cross the blood-brain barrier to allow high sensitivity brain tumor imaging has been made by Chinese scientists. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Cell factories package drugs for delivery Scientists in Australia and Germany have used living cells as 'factories' to encapsulate particles such as drugs in biological membranes. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2008
Ron Feemster |
The 2008 Pipeline Report We scrub industry's pipeline to find the drugs that everyone will be talking about in 2009 and beyond. |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
Catherine Arnst |
Decoding Alzheimer's After a century, promising treatments at last - and whispers of a cure. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Ron Feemster |
The PharmExec 2005 Pipeline Report Dry? Not quite. Instead of 1990s-style blockbusters, pharma's new molecules are niche drugs, cancer treatments and -- at last -- innovative mechanisms for troublesome targets: Acomplia [rimonabant] by Sanofi-Aventis... AMG 162 [denosumab] by Amgen... etc. |
Chemistry World
March 16, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Nanodumbbells Target Cancer Cells US scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
Managed Care
January 2004
Thomas Morrow |
Choking Off a Tumor's Blood Supply Angiogenesis blockade is a 30-year-old concept, but it will soon make the leap from lab bench to pharmacy shelf. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2004
Charly Travers |
Biotech's 5-Baggers: Part 3 Year after year, the hottest biotech companies with investors are those with drugs in development for the treatment of cancer. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
Integrin inhibitors could promote tumour growth A group of scientists has found that at low doses these drugs might actually have the opposite effect and promote tumor growth. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
John Carey |
Barring The Door Against AIDS A new generation of drugs focuses on keeping the virus from entering cells. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2008
John Bonner |
Fireflies make light work of tumours Cancer researchers can see how effective new chemotherapy drugs are at destroying tumours by using the light that causes fireflies to glow in the dark. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 55
David Bradley |
Testing the Byproducts of Cell Death A new approach to testing whether a particular chemotherapy agent is working well in treating a patient's cancer is being developed by UK scientists |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Medicine made to measure Healthcare tailored to suit the genetic makeup of the patient is finally coming to fruition. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
Medtronic and Eli Lilly Join Hands to Combat Parkinson's Disease The partnership aims to research and develop a new approach to treating the debilitating disease. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2010
Walter Armstrong |
The Next Wave: Pharm Exec's 2011 Pipeline Report 42 of the best new drugs in development or parked at the FDA |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Living Chemistry Biologists understand better what chemists can bring to the table. And chemists understand better the questions that biologists really care about. This has led to a bigger impact of chemists on biological problems. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2011
Carol Stanier |
Nanotubes Inject Stroke Therapy Into Rats' Brains Carbon nanotubes act as a delivery vehicle for small pieces of RNA that help to prevent cell death in the brain after stroke. |
Chemistry World
July 2, 2013
Jeanne Therese Andres |
Mapping receptors in the brain Scientists from the UK and Germany have developed new compounds that target and bind to brain proteins linked to serious neurological disorders. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2007
John Bonner |
Brain Mood Hormone Linked to Milk Production Milk production in mammalian breast tissue is regulated by serotonin - the same hormone that acts in the brain to control a person's mood, according to researchers. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2011
Meera Senthilingam |
How antidepressants spur brain growth Researchers have identified the mechanism by which some antidepressants stimulate the formation of new brain cells, an insight that could lead to improved drugs. |
