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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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JUL 19, 2015Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 30, 2015Microbiology
Bacteria produce a medley of secondary metabolites in response to their environment. Often, these metabolites are used t ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 19, 2015Plants & Animals
Plants and trees have often been used to treat diseases, in fact in ancient cultures, plants, roots, trees and other nat ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 29, 2015Neuroscience
Nerve cells and blood vessels engage in a chemical discussion to keep healthy and avoid disease, according to a new stud ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 29, 2015Neuroscience
Everybody wants to find a cure for Alzheimer's. When something looks good, people are likely to get very excited.
< ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 29, 2015Cancer
A new study led by Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain. Released in top ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 28, 2015Neuroscience
A team of UBC researchers has made a significant discovery uncovering the cause of brain swelling after trauma to the he ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 24, 2015Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 24, 2015Health & Medicine
Scientists have long suspected that respiratory viruses - the sort that cause common colds or bronchitis - play a critic ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 24, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology, and Immunology, ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 22, 2015Cancer
One of the main sessions at this year's Experimental Biology Conference in Boston was the Tang Prize Award lecture. It w ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 21, 2015Neuroscience
In a promising breakthrough for smokers who are trying to quit, neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Medic ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 20, 2015Microbiology
Scientists have found antibiotic resistance genes in the bacterial flora of a South American tribe that never before had ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 20, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Placebos have helped to ease symptoms of illness for centuries, despite their lack of active ingredients. They have also ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 19, 2015Space & Astronomy
SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule brought more than just a fancy coffee machine to the International Space Station in its mo ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 17, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have found antibiotic resistance genes in the bacterial flora of South American tribespeople who never before ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 16, 2015Cancer
When it comes to sequencing patients' tumor genomes to personalize cancer therapy, one very important step may be missin ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 15, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 15, 2015Cancer
The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it often fails to el ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 15, 2015Immunology
Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio revealed the mol ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 15, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Maintaining the stability and the correct sequence of our genetic information is vital to the accurate transmission of o ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 15, 2015Neuroscience
SENIOR VOLUNTEERS WARD OFF BRAIN ‘SHRINKAGE'
The memory center in the brains of seniors who volunteered in pu ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 14, 2015Cancer
Scientists have found six molecules that block HuR, an "oncoprotein" linked to cancer that was thought to be "undruggabl ...Written By: Will Hector
JUL 19, 2015
Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 30, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria produce a medley of secondary metabolites in response to their environment. Often, these metabolites are used t
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 19, 2015
Plants & Animals
Plants and trees have often been used to treat diseases, in fact in ancient cultures, plants, roots, trees and other nat
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 29, 2015
Neuroscience
Nerve cells and blood vessels engage in a chemical discussion to keep healthy and avoid disease, according to a new stud
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 29, 2015
Neuroscience
Everybody wants to find a cure for Alzheimer's. When something looks good, people are likely to get very excited.
< ...
< ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 29, 2015
Cancer
A new study led by Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain. Released in top
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 28, 2015
Neuroscience
A team of UBC researchers has made a significant discovery uncovering the cause of brain swelling after trauma to the he
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 24, 2015
Cancer
The simple act of thinking can accelerate the growth of many brain tumors.That's the conclusion of a paper in Cell publi
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 24, 2015
Health & Medicine
Scientists have long suspected that respiratory viruses - the sort that cause common colds or bronchitis - play a critic
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 24, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology, and Immunology,
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 22, 2015
Cancer
One of the main sessions at this year's Experimental Biology Conference in Boston was the Tang Prize Award lecture. It w
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 21, 2015
Neuroscience
In a promising breakthrough for smokers who are trying to quit, neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Medic
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 20, 2015
Microbiology
Scientists have found antibiotic resistance genes in the bacterial flora of a South American tribe that never before had
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 20, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Placebos have helped to ease symptoms of illness for centuries, despite their lack of active ingredients. They have also
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule brought more than just a fancy coffee machine to the International Space Station in its mo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 17, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have found antibiotic resistance genes in the bacterial flora of South American tribespeople who never before
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 16, 2015
Cancer
When it comes to sequencing patients' tumor genomes to personalize cancer therapy, one very important step may be missin
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 15, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 15, 2015
Cancer
The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it often fails to el
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 15, 2015
Immunology
Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio revealed the mol
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 15, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Maintaining the stability and the correct sequence of our genetic information is vital to the accurate transmission of o
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 15, 2015
Neuroscience
SENIOR VOLUNTEERS WARD OFF BRAIN ‘SHRINKAGE'
The memory center in the brains of seniors who volunteered in pu ...
The memory center in the brains of seniors who volunteered in pu ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 14, 2015
Cancer
Scientists have found six molecules that block HuR, an "oncoprotein" linked to cancer that was thought to be "undruggabl
...
Written By:
Will Hector