Immediately following severe burns, bacteria reach the wound from different sources, including the patient’s skin, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tracts and
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Discovery of anti-opioid pathway offers new route to designing safer pain medications: Innovative worm study provides new insights into genetics of addiction-prone drugs
A team at Scripps Research in Florida has discovered a biological system that manages cells’ response to opioid drug exposure.
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Turbo chip for drug development
In spite of increasing demand, the number of newly developed drugs decreased continuously in the past decades. The search for
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Breakthrough process to create cancer-killing drugs: New technique could produce treatments for wide variety of diseases
A research team at Dartmouth College has developed a new strategy for drug discovery and development that can be used
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Smarter drug release thanks to control over encapsulation: Trail-and-error experimentation in drug design can be omitted by control over location in drugs in molecular delivery package
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University have discovered the parameters that govern the encapsulation of drugs. This
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Heroin users aware of fentanyl, but at high risk of overdosing: Survey of users highlights need for more proactive overdose-prevention strategies
Most heroin users in Baltimore, a city heavily affected by the opioid epidemic, recognize that the heroin they buy is
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Birch pollen allergen immunotherapy normalizes nasal gene-expression and microbial community
Birch pollen allergic rhinitis is the most common chronic disorder in the Northern part of the globe, and it attributes
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Open-science model for drug discovery expands to neurodegenerative diseases
Parkinson’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are the newest frontiers for open science drug discovery, a global movement led by
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OxyContin reformulation to curb opioid abuse led to hepatitis C surge, study finds: Study cautions that some drug abuse control strategies can cause other health harms
Reformulation of the pain medicine OxyContin in 2010 to make it more difficult to abuse directly led to a large
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New kidney research sheds light on harms of certain drugs
Scientists have identified an enzyme that is a “master regulator” of kidney function that if excessively suppressed, can trigger renal
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