All Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Statins of questionable value
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…
Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…
New method to detect counterfeit drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jun 2014
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis meth…
Combating drug resistance in melanoma
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family o…
Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for so…
Study shows promise for rare eye condition
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2014
Recombinant human nerve growth factor (rhNGF) could provide a targeted treatment for neurotropic ke…
New gene linked to oesophageal cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2014
A newly discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer could hold the key to treatments for the hard-…
Synthetic molecule for new asthma treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 May 2014
A novel molecule which prevents T-cells from coordinating asthma bought on by allergens has been id…
£10m prize to solve greatest scientific problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2014
A £10 million prize has been launched by Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board to solve the great…
‘Lonely’ bacteria lead to antibiotic resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2014
Smaller groups of bacteria are more likely to become resistant to antibiotics than larger groups su…
Antidepressants affect aquatic life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2014
The presence of antidepressants in our aquatic ecosystem is threatening wildlife, affecting its beh…
Mechanism of antibiotic resistance revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Apr 2014
Antibiotic resistance represents a serious threat to human health, and researchers in London have t…
Ubiquibodies mark proteins for destruction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2014
A newly engineered type of antibody fragment which mark specific proteins inside a cell with a mole…
Merm1 cancer target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2014
A newly-discovered enzyme is supressed in cancer and lung inflammation and could help in the develo…
Understanding chromatography saves pharma big money
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2014
By fine tuning a critical process in drug manufacture, researchers at Rice University say they can …
Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2014
New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say …
On-demand nano-vaccines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Feb 2014
Vaccines produced on the spot when and where a disease is breaking out might be possible thanks to …
Chemical structures transferred to public domain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2014
Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access …
Breaking the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs…
‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2013
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking…
