Articles tagged with: medicine
A recent article in C&EN reports that scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to …
At the University of California, researchers have been studying RNA interface(RNAi), a naturally occurring system that turns genes on and off, and the proteins drosha and dicer. The research has focused on spacial and …
A recent study by the Scripps Research Institute Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders reveals an interesting fact about food addiction. While it has been known that sugary or fatty foods can cause an …
A group of researchers at the University Health Network of Toronto led by Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, developed a novel gene therapy technique that repaired donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant. The group’s findings, “Functional …
One’s breast shape may not always be as perfect as those seen in the Victoria Secret catalogue; however, when you’re paying $10,000.00 for them, they better come pretty darn close. Many doctors are toying with …
In the context of cardiovascular medicine, coronary arterial clotting from the fatty build-up from cholesterol is closely related to the control, volume, and coagulation of blood due to cells in the blood vessels. Angioplasty, the …
An article released in Science last August (Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated from Patients with ALS can be Differentiated into Motor Neurons) prompted Time Magazine to name the discovery the No. 1 Medical Breakthrough of …
Metal-DNA adducts are popular molecules for cancer treatment. However, the metal-based drugs have been associated with unwanted side effects such as nausea, nephrotoxicity (toxicity to kidney cells), and myelosuppression (suppression of bone marrow activity). Researchers …
The molecule for this week comes from research out of the Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and concerns altering pyridinone N-substituents to optimize activity as potential prodrugs for …
