Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A tiny, four-fingered 'hand' folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to infect them, researchers report. Dubbed the NanoGripper, the nanorobotic hand also could be programmed to interact with other viruses or to recognize cell surface markers for targeted drug delivery, such as for cancer treatment.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Fereshte Ghorbani, Shaochen You, Gennadii A. Grabovyi, Mannkyu Hong, Garrett Lindsey, Arnab K. Chatterjee, and Michael J. Bollong Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05711 Cysteine reactive groups are a mainstay in the design of covalent drugs and probe molecules, yet only a handful of electrophiles are routinely used to target this amino acid.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pioneers like Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have led the RNA interference field for years. Now, a crop of young biotechs is building on that foundation by taking the drugmaking technology in new directions.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2024 -- Drugs already taken by millions of diabetes patients appear to also help slash asthma attacks by up to 70%, new British research shows.The two drugs are metformin, one of the most widely used diabetes medications, and the.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Updates to ELN annotation tool, ELN insert link hotkey, auto generated sample IDs, list searching in inventory, flag outliers during imports

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Hydrogen, a promising fuel, has extensive applications in many sectors. However, its safe and widespread use necessitates reliable sensing methods. While tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) has proved to be an effective gas sensing method, detecting hydrogen using TDLAS is difficult due to its weak light absorption property in the infrared region.

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Covalent Modifiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Thomas M. Geiger, Radosław P. Nowak Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry , 2024 [link] Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are hetero-bifunctional molecules that remove disease-causing proteins through the means of targeted protein degradation (TPD). Since their proof-of-concept over 20 years ago, PROTACs emerged as new modality in drug discovery and chemical biology.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The agency's openness to a targeted pivotal study shows it’s still willing to consider accelerated clearance for Duchenne gene therapies despite questions about their effectiveness.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Rates of postpartum depression have more than doubled in little over a decade among American women, a new analysis shows. While about 1 in every 10 new moms (9.4%) suffered postpartum depression in 2010, that number rose.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Quantum computing is rapidly transitioning from theory to reality, using the principles of quantum mechanics to achieve computational power far beyond traditional computers. Imagine upgrading from a bicycle to a spaceship—quantum computers can solve complex problems at extraordinary speeds. However, this leap in computing power poses significant challenges, particularly for cybersecurity, which forms the backbone of data protection in our digital world.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Capturing carbon dioxide from the hot industrial exhaust of cement and steel plants requires cooling the exhaust from around 200 C to 60 C so that liquid amines can react with the CO2. Chemists have now created a new type of metal-organic framework that captures CO2 at high temperatures, avoiding the need to expend energy and water to cool the exhaust.

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Covalent Modifiers

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

W Liu, R Patouret, E Peev, S Barluenga, N Winssinger Helvetica Chimica Acta , 2024 [link] Herein, we detail an extension of our research on the synthesis of a small library of furanoheliangolides and the characterization of the covalent interaction between goyazensolide and IPO5. Using a build‐couple‐pair strategy, we assembled a small library of germacrene‐type lactones and diversified them into eight groups of structurally different analogues.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. The shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier phase.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Gregory B. Craven, Hang Chu, Jessica D. Sun, Jordan D. Carelli, Brittany Coyne, Hao Chen, Ying Chen, Xiaolei Ma, Subhamoy Das, Wayne Kong, Adam D. Zajdlik, Kin S. Yang, Solomon H. Reisberg, Peter A. Thompson, J. Russell Lipford & Jack Taunton Nature, 2024 [link] Somatic alterations in the oncogenic kinase AKT1 have been identified in a broad spectrum of solid tumours.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A striking new phenomenon is emerging: distinct regions are seeing repeated heat waves that are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global warming can predict or explain. A new study provides the first worldwide map of such regions, which show up on every continent except Antarctica like giant, angry skin blotches.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Mengzhen Gu, Xiaoqing Xu, Xiaoping Wang, Yun Wang, Yu Zhao, Xiaoxian Hu, Lu Zhu, Zhenzhong Deng, and Chao Han Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c02277 Histone lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is hyperactive in breast cancer, which is associated with the metastasis of the tumor. Current irreversible LSD1 inhibitors are all synthesized by covalently binding to the flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor, which often have side effects due to the high affinity for a var

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It's common knowledge that our brains -- and, specifically, our brain cells -- store memories. But a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also perform a memory function, opening new pathways for understanding how memory works and creating the potential to enhance learning and to treat memory-related afflictions.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

At an event hosted by BioPharma Dive, drugmaker executives and investors discussed the importance of focus, smart spending and maintaining lines of sight to the clinic.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scientists discovered a stretch of DNA in both C3 plants, like wheat and soybeans, and C4 plants, like corn and sorghum, that is responsible for optimizing C4 plant photosynthesis and making them better at withstanding heat and drought. The findings are insightful in understanding how some plants evolved to be more efficient, and may now be used as a springboard for turning C4 photosynthesis on in C3 plants -- an important step for creating sustainable crop populations in the face of climate cha

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Negative drug results cost AbbVie billions of dollars in market value and convinced analysts that Bristol Myers had placed a better bet in buying Karuna Therapeutics.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Giulia Alboreggia, Parima Udompholkul, Emma L. Atienza, Kendall Muzzarelli, Zahra Assar, and Maurizio Pellecchia Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2024 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c01541 Covalent drugs provide pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic advantages over reversible agents. However, covalent strategies have been developed mostly to target cysteine (Cys) residues, which are rarely found in binding sites.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

New research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its past.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Researchers have reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to disinfect drinking water to safeguard public health from diseases like cholera and typhoid fever.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recently published meta-analysis reveals an advantage in sports-related information processing compared to non-athletes. The data consisted of 21 studies involving a total of 1455 participants. Athletes had better working memory than non-athletes and this advantage was further enhanced when athletes were compared to sedentary people.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Conghao Gai, Hairong Zeng , Haoming Xu, Xiaoyun Chai, Yan Zou, Chunlin Zhuang, Guangbo Ge, Qingjie Zhao European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 [link] Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) is an enzyme that catalyses the oxidative decarboxylation of isocitrate, producing α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) relative to the hydroxylation of substrates. However, IDH mutants can further reduce α-KG to 2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) which competitively inhibits α-KG dependent enzymes, leading to the downregulation of n

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Howard Chang will take over as chief scientific officer and senior VP of research as the biotech searches for more ways to overcome the looming loss of exclusivity for some of its top-selling medicines.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Researchers have developed PanoRadar, a new tool to give robots superhuman vision by transforming simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the environment.

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