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Drug Development
Drug development: describes the process of developing a new drug that energetically targets a specific weakness in a cell. The process consist of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery.
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APR 21, 2020Immunology
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the accumulation of “tau tangles”. Tau is a ...Written By: Tara FernandesAPR 21, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers were seeking a promising new strategy to challenge drug resistance in leukemia. They found that targeted low ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 20, 2020Genetics & Genomics
New research may aid in the development of gene therapies for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 20, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine against MERS (Middle East Respir ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 19, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists have recently developed a large molecule database that can help drug development. The database called ‘ ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 19, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug, known as tucatinib or Tuksya, as a treatment for advanced f ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 18, 2020Cancer
Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in America. One of the most aggressive forms of cancer is melanoma, ...Written By: Jasper CantrellAPR 17, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Resistance to chemotherapeutic use in caner patients is something that is inevitable. Continued resistance to these drug ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 17, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Early results from a Chicago hospital treating patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir for severe ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 17, 2020Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis products are increasingly used to treat chronic pain from arthritis. As its non psychoactive ingredient, cannab ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 17, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Whole genome sequencing on schizophrenia patients reveals variations that affect genomic architecture are more common in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 17, 2020Chemistry & Physics
While the medical community is scrambling to find the proper medications for Sars-CoV-02 infection, a significant portio ...Written By: Daniel DuanAPR 16, 2020Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. With a poor five year prognosis and lack of effective tr ...Written By: Jasper CantrellAPR 16, 2020Cancer
A report published in Nature Communications highlights findings from a study showing that the experimental drug, Qu ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 15, 2020Neuroscience
For some time now, researchers have suspected that psilocybin, the hallucinogen chemical present in ‘magic mushroo ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 15, 2020Immunology
A specific parasitic species causes the most deaths from malaria: Plasmodium falciparum. This parasite does so by avoidi ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 15, 2020Immunology
As of April 9th, over 60% of deaths from COVID-19 in New York state were men. Meanwhile, as of April 6, 82% of patients ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 15, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Have you ever been sad in the winter? If so, you’re not alone. Medaka fish feel it too. Seasonal affective disorde ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 15, 2020Cannabis Sciences
As cannabis has become more and more popular for both medical and recreational use, researchers are increasingly able to ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 15, 2020Immunology
Researchers from the US and China have found that COVID-19 can destroy T cells, a type of lymphocyte that plays a key ro ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 14, 2020Cardiology
Often, people who have Type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. This is because they are usu ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 13, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
One of the main challenges of cancer treatments is preventing the cancer from returning again—in essence stopping ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 13, 2020Cancer
In the past, the go-to drugs have always been small molecules. These small molecules would interact with the cell and ac ...Written By: Jasper CantrellAPR 13, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
While heparin is the most commonly prescribed drug in hospitals, we have to extract it from pig intestines, which is fra ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
APR 21, 2020
Immunology
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the accumulation of “tau tangles”. Tau is a
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
APR 21, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers were seeking a promising new strategy to challenge drug resistance in leukemia. They found that targeted low
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 20, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
New research may aid in the development of gene therapies for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine against MERS (Middle East Respir
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 19, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists have recently developed a large molecule database that can help drug development. The database called ‘
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 19, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug, known as tucatinib or Tuksya, as a treatment for advanced f
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 18, 2020
Cancer
Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in America. One of the most aggressive forms of cancer is melanoma,
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
APR 17, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Resistance to chemotherapeutic use in caner patients is something that is inevitable. Continued resistance to these drug
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 17, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Early results from a Chicago hospital treating patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir for severe
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 17, 2020
Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis products are increasingly used to treat chronic pain from arthritis. As its non psychoactive ingredient, cannab
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 17, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Whole genome sequencing on schizophrenia patients reveals variations that affect genomic architecture are more common in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 17, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
While the medical community is scrambling to find the proper medications for Sars-CoV-02 infection, a significant portio
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
APR 16, 2020
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. With a poor five year prognosis and lack of effective tr
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
APR 16, 2020
Cancer
A report published in Nature Communications highlights findings from a study showing that the experimental drug, Qu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 15, 2020
Neuroscience
For some time now, researchers have suspected that psilocybin, the hallucinogen chemical present in ‘magic mushroo
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 15, 2020
Immunology
A specific parasitic species causes the most deaths from malaria: Plasmodium falciparum. This parasite does so by avoidi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 15, 2020
Immunology
As of April 9th, over 60% of deaths from COVID-19 in New York state were men. Meanwhile, as of April 6, 82% of patients
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 15, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Have you ever been sad in the winter? If so, you’re not alone. Medaka fish feel it too. Seasonal affective disorde
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 15, 2020
Cannabis Sciences
As cannabis has become more and more popular for both medical and recreational use, researchers are increasingly able to
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 15, 2020
Immunology
Researchers from the US and China have found that COVID-19 can destroy T cells, a type of lymphocyte that plays a key ro
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 14, 2020
Cardiology
Often, people who have Type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. This is because they are usu
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 13, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
One of the main challenges of cancer treatments is preventing the cancer from returning again—in essence stopping
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 13, 2020
Cancer
In the past, the go-to drugs have always been small molecules. These small molecules would interact with the cell and ac
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
APR 13, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
While heparin is the most commonly prescribed drug in hospitals, we have to extract it from pig intestines, which is fra
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch