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Drug research
Drug research encompasses many processes which culminate in the development of drugs and pharmaceuticals. Drug discovery and development is a long and detailed endeavor including extensive research and testing of new drug modalities to ensure they are both safe and effective.
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AUG 27, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
Mice are used as the frontline for drug testing for brain disorders. Why? Their brains are supposed to have much of the ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 27, 2019Health & Medicine
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a fast-acting skin patch that effectivel ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAUG 27, 2019Microbiology
There are some small roundworms, also called nematodes, in the genus Strongyloides that can infect animals. Two species ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 26, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Until recently, many types of gene-editing methods were unable to target critical parts of DNA. Now however, researchers ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 25, 2019Drug Discovery & Development
According to the findings of a clinical trial, scientists at Mt. Sinai have found a new therapeutic effective for p ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 25, 2019Technology
Tissue engineering is a quickly growing field that involves the development of artificial organs and tissues that can be ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 25, 2019Technology
A team of Brown University researchers has developed a new computer model that simulates the way red blood cells become ...Written By: Nouran AminAUG 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 23, 2019Health & Medicine
Colorado researchers found that cannabis played a possible role in pain management in active athletes through observing ...AUG 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 22, 2019Cancer
From 2000–2010, global consumption of antibiotics rose by 35% up to 70 billion doses each year. Although doctors a ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 22, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Morality is usually a subject discussed by philosophers, not biologists. But is it really a purely philosophical issues? ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 21, 2019Microbiology
The human body carries a large community of microbes, and the ones living in our gastrointestinal tract exert a powerful ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 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, 2019Cancer
Did you know that dogs get lung cancer? New research published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research shows ho ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 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 18, 2019Genetics & Genomics
There are challenges to working with nerve cells in the lab, which can create research bottlenecks in the study of neuro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 18, 2019Cancer
New research published in Communications Biology suggests that electromagnetic fields are capable of stopping the metast ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 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 Leitch
AUG 27, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
Mice are used as the frontline for drug testing for brain disorders. Why? Their brains are supposed to have much of the
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 27, 2019
Health & Medicine
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a fast-acting skin patch that effectivel
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
AUG 27, 2019
Microbiology
There are some small roundworms, also called nematodes, in the genus Strongyloides that can infect animals. Two species
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Until recently, many types of gene-editing methods were unable to target critical parts of DNA. Now however, researchers
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 25, 2019
Drug Discovery & Development
According to the findings of a clinical trial, scientists at Mt. Sinai have found a new therapeutic effective for p
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 25, 2019
Technology
Tissue engineering is a quickly growing field that involves the development of artificial organs and tissues that can be
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
AUG 25, 2019
Technology
A team of Brown University researchers has developed a new computer model that simulates the way red blood cells become
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
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 23, 2019
Health & Medicine
Colorado researchers found that cannabis played a possible role in pain management in active athletes through observing
...
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 22, 2019
Cancer
From 2000–2010, global consumption of antibiotics rose by 35% up to 70 billion doses each year. Although doctors a
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 22, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Morality is usually a subject discussed by philosophers, not biologists. But is it really a purely philosophical issues?
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 21, 2019
Microbiology
The human body carries a large community of microbes, and the ones living in our gastrointestinal tract exert a powerful
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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
Cancer
Did you know that dogs get lung cancer? New research published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research shows ho
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
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 18, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
There are challenges to working with nerve cells in the lab, which can create research bottlenecks in the study of neuro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 18, 2019
Cancer
New research published in Communications Biology suggests that electromagnetic fields are capable of stopping the metast
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
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