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Medicine Deep Dive Into Key COVID-19 Protein is a Step Toward New Drugs, Vaccines (Medicine) 5 Apr 2021 Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Science have taken a key step toward new drugs and vaccines for combating COVID-19 with a deep dive into one protein’s interactions…
Biology Unique AI Method For Generating Proteins Will Speed Up Drug Development (Biology) 30 Mar 2021 Artificial Intelligence is now capable of generating novel, functionally active proteins, thanks to recently published work by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. "What we are now able to…
Medicine Trinity Scientists Find That Binding Iron Improves the Effect of Anti-TB Drug Bedaquiline (Medicine) 23 Mar 2021 Although Tuberculosis, or TB, killed nearly as many people as COVID-19 (approx. 1.8 million) in 2020, it did not receive as much media and public attention. The pandemic has proven…
Medicine BU Researchers Identify Two Drugs That Delay Bone Marrow Cancer Development (Medicine) 22 Mar 2021 Drugs target the dysregulation of the extracellular matrix, an aspect of the disease for which there is currently no treatment Primary myelofibrosis (PMF), a relatively rare but painful type of…
Medicine Common Drugs For Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Do Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk (Medicine) 21 Mar 2021 Findings relieve concerns arising from clinical trials of liraglutide Commonly used medications for type 2 diabetes and obesity called glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), are not associated with…
