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PD-L1 assay specifically selects ideal patients for cancer treatment

13 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review

An assay assessing the level of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) could help to determine the method of treatment for lung cancer patients...

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Virtual drug discovery tackles unknown universe of drugs

7 February 2019 | By Drug Target Review

An online compound library consisting of the structure of over a billion molecules could be the future of drug discovery...

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Scientists achieve the first stable simulations of DNA crystals

21 January 2019 | By Drug Target Review

A study by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine has been the first to achieve stable simulations of DNA crystals...

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Producing vaccines without the use of chemicals

15 January 2019 | By Drug Target Review

Innovative new technology will use electron beams to produce inactivated vaccines quickly, reproducibly and without the use of chemicals...

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Using the SVM method to predict enhancers from tissues and cell lines

14 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

A team of researchers have developed a computational bioinformatic method to predict and accurately locate enhancer regions on cell lines.

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Drug sponge could minimise effects of cancer therapy

9 January 2019 | By Drug Target Review

A drug 'sponge' could be the future method of soaking up excess drugs within the body after cancer treatments such as chemotherapy to prevent side effects...

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AI used to diagnose diabetic eye disease

8 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

Artificial Intelligence has been used to cost-effectively diagnose diabetic-related eye disease automatically with far more accuracy than current methods...

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Nanosatellite system imagery could revolutionise lab imaging

7 January 2019 | By Drug Target Review

Satellite imaging could revolutionise imaging in laboratories, and may impact the current use of imaging in medicinal research...

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Inhalable mRNA could treat lung disease

7 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

An inhalable mix of a polymer and mRNA molecules, used to produce luciferase, could be the method of treating lung diseases in the future...

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The mysterious functions of the PCSK9 protein

3 January 2019 | By Drug Target Review

Researchers have described the methods used to build a model of the 'druggable' PCSK9 inhibitor and detailed how it works...

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Implantable device could treat bladder problems

3 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

A tiny, soft, implantable device could be used to treat and control bladder problems, such as incontinence or the need to frequently urinate...

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Potential drug targets found by muting large silent genes

2 January 2019 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

Streptomyces bacteria has been used to identify compounds that could lead to the production of drugs to treat various conditions...

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Application note: GABA_A Receptors

11 December 2018 | By SB Drug Discovery

SB Drug Discovery shows the validation of fluorescence and automated electrophysiology assays designed to assess agonists, antagonists and allosteric modulators of these receptors, culminating in a high-throughput electrophysiology assay suited to assessing multiple GABAA receptor subtypes on a single assay plate.

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Higher radiation tolerance for proteins imaged using LPEM

10 December 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (Drug Target Review)

Liquid-phase electron microscopy could overcome limitations identified through traditional protein imaging techniques and through cro-electron microscopy...

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Proteomics: cracking the molecular mystery of diseases and therapeutics

10 December 2018 | By Anowarul Amin

In the wake of the human genome project, molecular biology and genetic technologies are tremendously integrating into biomedical research. Currently, PCR, qPCR, and sequencing are key tools in the clinical laboratory for the detection and characterisation of microorganisms and genetic disorders.

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