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Environmental Exposures Affect Therapeutic Drugs

Dec. 1, 2020 — Humans are exposed to various environmental or dietary molecules that can attenuate or even increase the effect of therapeutic drugs. Studies on the industrial chemical bisphenol A and the ...

'Anti-Antibiotic' Allows for Use of Antibiotics Without Driving Resistance

Dec. 1, 2020 — An inexpensive, FDA-approved drug -- cholestyramine -- taken in conjunction with an antibiotic prevents the antibiotic from driving antimicrobial resistance, according to new ...

World's First: Drug Guides Stem Cells to Desired Location, Improving Their Ability to Heal

Nov. 24, 2020 — Scientists have created a drug that can lure stem cells to damaged tissue and improve treatment efficacy -- a scientific first and major advance for ...

Drug Eases Recovery for Those With Severe Alcohol Withdrawal

Nov. 19, 2020 — Scientists say a drug originally developed to treat high blood pressure can reduce severe withdrawal symptoms for patients diagnosed with alcohol use ...

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Oral Drug Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Researchers Find

Dec. 3, 2020 — Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers have ...

Medicine-Carriers Made from Human Cells Can Cure Lung Infections

Dec. 3, 2020 — Scientists used human white blood cell membranes to carry two drugs, an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory, directly to infected lungs in mice. The nano-sized drug delivery method successfully ...

More Evidence That Cellular 'Death by Iron' Could Be Promising Avenue of Cancer Treatment

Dec. 1, 2020 — Genetic mutations that give cancers a metabolic boost may also leave them vulnerable to drugs that promote a particular form of cell death, ...

Metabolism Influences Parasite's Resistance to Drugs

Dec. 1, 2020 — New insight on how a parasite can resist current therapies has just been ...

Researchers Develop Customized Targeting of Bacteria Using Lysins

Dec. 1, 2020 — Researchers have developed a method to produce engineered lysins that can be used to selectively kill bacteria of interest while leaving others unharmed. The discovery presents a promising ...

Warning Signs Over Effectiveness of HIV 'Wonder Drug' in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dec. 1, 2020 — Dolutegravir, the current first-line treatment for HIV, may not be as effective as hoped in sub-Saharan Africa, suggests new research published on World AIDS Day. The study finds that this so-called ...

AI Predicts Which Drug Combinations Kill Cancer Cells

Dec. 1, 2020 — A machine learning model can help us treat cancer more ...

Simple New Testing Method Aims to Improve Time-Release Drugs

Nov. 24, 2020 — Engineers filled a glass tube bent like a tuning fork, kept vibrating by a circuit at its resonance frequency, with simulated stomach and intestine contents and passed an over-the-counter ...

Understanding Ion Channel Inhibition to Open Doors in Drug Discovery

Nov. 23, 2020 — Scientists have discovered how drug-like small molecules can regulate the activity of therapeutically relevant ion channels - and their findings could transform ongoing drug development efforts. The ...

Experimental Evolution Reveals How Bacteria Gain Drug Resistance

Nov. 24, 2020 — A research team has succeeded in experimentally evolving the common bacteria under pressure from a large number of individual antibiotics, and identified the mechanisms and constraints underlying ...