An international team has uncovered the potential to beat obesity at the cellular level, characterizing for the first time a
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Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions: Development of a deep learning-based computational framework that predicts interactions for drug-drug or drug-food constituent pairs
A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types of drug-drug
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New affordable hepatitis C combination treatment shows 97 percent cure rate: Results support a public health approach to hepatitis C
An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has been shown to be safe and effective,
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Most widely prescribed diabetes drug improves nicotine withdrawal symptoms in animal model
Metformin, the most widely used medication for diabetes, has also been shown to help treat dementia and some cancers. New
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Biomarker helps identify ‘window of opportunity’ for cancer chemotherapy timing: This biomarker may help clinicians combine anti-angiogenesis and anticancer drugs more effectively to boost results
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is essential for tumor growth. A new study reported in The American Journal
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How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug? Scientists show how the gonorrhea bacterium resists last-resort antibiotic ceftriaxone while maintaining a robust growth rate
The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to multiple standard antibiotics and now threatens to develop
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