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4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
By expressing the genes involved in the production of pleuromutilin in a different type of fungus, researchers increased production by more than 2,000%...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Biotechnology company Orchard Therapeutics has officially launched with a £21-million Series A financing led by F-Prime Capital...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Oral administration of a Jakinib lessened the destructive inflammation and nerve cell degradation in the area of the brain affected by Parkinson's...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have shown how small structural changes in a key breast cancer receptor can produce predictable effects in curbing or accelerating cancer growth...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers also looked at how the identified gene regions might be increasing the risk of cancer, and these findings may lead to new treatments...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have obtained images of the NMDA receptor in different states. Understanding how NMDA receptors activate is critical in designing new drugs...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The deadly nerve agent sarin can be stopped if treated with an antidote. Now, a new study describes how such a drug works...
1 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers found that Hsp90 inhibitors target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects of standard treatment...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Su-Chun Zhang created two related cell types. When the cells detect the designer drug, one type ramps up production of dopamine; the other chokes it off...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at Lund University have identified a new therapeutic target for the treatment of bacterial infections that regulates the immune response...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A new €2.25m US-Ireland R&D partnership has been set up to develop a gene therapy approach with the aim of potentially reversing diabetes-related blindness...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have shown that zinc-oxide nanoparticles can prevent genital herpes virus from entering cells, and help natural immunity to develop...
27 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Fragile x mice models treated with Nutlin-3 regained the ability to remember what they had seen, and smelled, in their first visit to a test chamber...
27 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A new discovery illustrates how a protein called Musashi-2 regulates the function and development of important blood stem cells...
27 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
New Salk research suggests that rapamycin could target the neural damage associated with Leigh syndrome and other forms of neurodegeneration as well...
