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 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 …

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 …