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4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have identified a metabolite of ketamine, hydroxynorketamine, that quickly reverses depression in mice, but without ketamine's side effects...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have developed a process to grow the majority of bacteria from the gut, which will enable scientists to understand more about our microbiome...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The technique, developed by scientists at Cambridge University, could open up new avenues of research aimed at helping improve the chances of success of IVF...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The findings of a new study suggest a class of drugs previously developed to treat atherosclerosis could be repurposed for treatment of pancreatic cancer...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
By expressing the genes involved in the production of pleuromutilin in a different type of fungus, researchers increased production by more than 2,000%...
4 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Biotechnology company Orchard Therapeutics has officially launched with a £21-million Series A financing led by F-Prime Capital...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Oral administration of a Jakinib lessened the destructive inflammation and nerve cell degradation in the area of the brain affected by Parkinson's...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have shown how small structural changes in a key breast cancer receptor can produce predictable effects in curbing or accelerating cancer growth...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers also looked at how the identified gene regions might be increasing the risk of cancer, and these findings may lead to new treatments...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers have obtained images of the NMDA receptor in different states. Understanding how NMDA receptors activate is critical in designing new drugs...
3 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The deadly nerve agent sarin can be stopped if treated with an antidote. Now, a new study describes how such a drug works...
1 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers found that Hsp90 inhibitors target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects of standard treatment...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Su-Chun Zhang created two related cell types. When the cells detect the designer drug, one type ramps up production of dopamine; the other chokes it off...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Researchers at Lund University have identified a new therapeutic target for the treatment of bacterial infections that regulates the immune response...
28 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A new €2.25m US-Ireland R&D partnership has been set up to develop a gene therapy approach with the aim of potentially reversing diabetes-related blindness...
