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Drug Discovery
Drug Discovery: drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. Historically, drugs were discovered through identifying the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery. Modern drug discovery involves the identification of screening hits, medicinal chemistry and optimization of those hits to increase the affinity, selectivity (to reduce the potential of side effects), efficacy/potency, metabolic stability (to increase the half-life), and oral bioavailability.
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AUG 25, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Breast cancer affects 250,000 women in the U.S. annually. Those with most common form test positive for hormone receptor ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 25, 2019Technology
Will futuristic concepts from the world of technology likely find a place in our medicine cabinet? Maybe! The new concep ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 23, 2019Clinical & Molecular DX
A deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) caused by the Ebola virus triggers hemorrhagic fever in humans and some monkeys. The ...Written By: Nupur SrivastavaAUG 23, 2019Immunology
The opioid crisis results in 130 American deaths every day, and both prescribed and synthetic opioids are at the core of ...Written By: Amanda MikyskaAUG 23, 2019Cancer
New research published in Nature Communications provides insight on a potential treatment for an aggressive form of brai ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 22, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Current methods for testing potential treatments for kidney disease do not take genetic variation into account for how t ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 20, 2019Neuroscience
Schwann cells are octopus-like cells in the nervous system that wrap around nerve cells, jelly-roll fashion, to form a s ...Written By: Dr. Nina LichtenbergAUG 20, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
From a first glance, MDMA-assisted therapy may look very different from mainstream therapies such as Cognitive Behaviora ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 20, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
A novel ‘lab-on-a-chip’ the size of a postage stamp could soon advance the developments of safer anti-clotti ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 19, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
People with autism are more likely than those without to develop social anxiety (Bejerot: 2014). Meanwhile, current anti ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 19, 2019Health & Medicine
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new treatment for a severe form of multi-drug-resistan ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAUG 19, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) aims to create an FDA-approved standardized MDMA-assist ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 18, 2019Microbiology
The world is full of bacteria that have to share the world with myriad species, and often have to live in competition wi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 17, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Conventionally, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is treated via talk therapy, with the aim of getting patients to o ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 17, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Uranium poisoning is unusual to the general population but does happen to miners, mineral mill and fabrication workers. ...Written By: Daniel DuanAUG 15, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
The two solidifying instigators of Alzheimer -disease (AD)—amyloid beta and the tau protein—have long been t ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 14, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Building on almost 20 years of research, a phase 1 clinical trial drug for pancreatic cancer, named ‘AZD1775&rsquo ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 13, 2019Health & Medicine
In healthy people, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is fromed by brain endothelial cells, strictly controls the ...Written By: Dena ArutaAUG 13, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Early research has indicated that aspirin usage may increase the survival rate among women with breast cancer. These stu ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 13, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Medical scientists at Augusta University have discovered a natural occurring chemical that dilates blood vessels dilate ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 12, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Some of the first research on psychedelics in clinical settings was to assess their efficacy in treating alcoholism. In ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 11, 2019Cell & Molecular Biology
Cancer is most deadly when it metastasizes, which can happen after tumor-removal surgery. It's a serious challenge for m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 11, 2019Microbiology
Scientists have deciphered the X-ray crystal structure of an enzyme that generates a unique broad spectrum antibiotic ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 10, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Modern medicine commonly refers to addiction as a brain disease caused by drugs and other negative stimuli. However, evi ...Written By: Annie Lennon
AUG 25, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Breast cancer affects 250,000 women in the U.S. annually. Those with most common form test positive for hormone receptor
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 25, 2019
Technology
Will futuristic concepts from the world of technology likely find a place in our medicine cabinet? Maybe! The new concep
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 23, 2019
Clinical & Molecular DX
A deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) caused by the Ebola virus triggers hemorrhagic fever in humans and some monkeys. The
...
Written By:
Nupur Srivastava
AUG 23, 2019
Immunology
The opioid crisis results in 130 American deaths every day, and both prescribed and synthetic opioids are at the core of
...
Written By:
Amanda Mikyska
AUG 23, 2019
Cancer
New research published in Nature Communications provides insight on a potential treatment for an aggressive form of brai
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 22, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Current methods for testing potential treatments for kidney disease do not take genetic variation into account for how t
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 20, 2019
Neuroscience
Schwann cells are octopus-like cells in the nervous system that wrap around nerve cells, jelly-roll fashion, to form a s
...
Written By:
Dr. Nina Lichtenberg
AUG 20, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
From a first glance, MDMA-assisted therapy may look very different from mainstream therapies such as Cognitive Behaviora
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 20, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
A novel ‘lab-on-a-chip’ the size of a postage stamp could soon advance the developments of safer anti-clotti
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 19, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
People with autism are more likely than those without to develop social anxiety (Bejerot: 2014). Meanwhile, current anti
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 19, 2019
Health & Medicine
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new treatment for a severe form of multi-drug-resistan
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 19, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) aims to create an FDA-approved standardized MDMA-assist
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 18, 2019
Microbiology
The world is full of bacteria that have to share the world with myriad species, and often have to live in competition wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 17, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Conventionally, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is treated via talk therapy, with the aim of getting patients to o
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 17, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Uranium poisoning is unusual to the general population but does happen to miners, mineral mill and fabrication workers.
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 15, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
The two solidifying instigators of Alzheimer -disease (AD)—amyloid beta and the tau protein—have long been t
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 14, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Building on almost 20 years of research, a phase 1 clinical trial drug for pancreatic cancer, named ‘AZD1775&rsquo
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 13, 2019
Health & Medicine
In healthy people, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which is fromed by brain endothelial cells, strictly controls the
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
AUG 13, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Early research has indicated that aspirin usage may increase the survival rate among women with breast cancer. These stu
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 13, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Medical scientists at Augusta University have discovered a natural occurring chemical that dilates blood vessels dilate
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 12, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Some of the first research on psychedelics in clinical settings was to assess their efficacy in treating alcoholism. In
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 11, 2019
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cancer is most deadly when it metastasizes, which can happen after tumor-removal surgery. It's a serious challenge for m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 11, 2019
Microbiology
Scientists have deciphered the X-ray crystal structure of an enzyme that generates a unique broad spectrum antibiotic ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 10, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Modern medicine commonly refers to addiction as a brain disease caused by drugs and other negative stimuli. However, evi
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon