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Alcohol, Cannabis and Other Drugs: A Pharmacological Evaluation

Understanding the interactions between alcohol and cannabis can provide researchers, clinicians and other HCPs with important information on the severity of their side effects.

10 Apr 2019

Don't Believe the Hemp: UHPLC Analysis of Hemp Seed Oils

Despite the popularity of hemp seed oil products, there are currently no standardized analysis techniques. To this end, researchers have been exploring the use of HPLC-MS for cannabinoid profiling of hemp.

10 Apr 2019

High Throughput Nucleic Acid Purification Simplified

Labs demand purity and flexibility for high throughput nucleic acid purification, while needing to complete difficult downstream analysis, for example NGS.

From Promega Corporation 9 Apr 2019

Testing how well wastewater disinfection methods affect antibiotic resistance genes

Each year at least 2 million Americans are infected with bacteria that cannot be treated with antibiotics, and at least 23,000 of these people die, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

9 Apr 2019

Scientists develop new imaging technology to visualize cells' eating habits

Scientists have developed a new imaging technology to visualize what cells eat, which could aid the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

8 Apr 2019

A gene regulatory multi-tool plays key role in unjamming the genome after DNA damage

A protein complex that is involved in nearly every step in the regulatory control of gene expression in cells has now been shown also to play a key role in clearing potential traffic jams in the production of RNA.

5 Apr 2019

GC-MS/MS of dried urine is a ‘good surrogate’ for serum testing of hormones

Researchers have shown that analyzing dried urine extracts with GC-MS/MS to assess levels of reproductive hormones in pre-and post-menopausal women provides similar results to radioimmunoassays using serum samples.

5 Apr 2019

Could garlic oil represent an alternative to antibiotics in the food industry?

Using gas chromatography, scientists have been able to determine the burden of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in common food items and have discovered that garlic oil may be a viable alternative to chemical antibiotics.

5 Apr 2019

Scientists solve mystery of how bacterial nanowires conduct electricity

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that live in soil and sediment can conduct electricity.

5 Apr 2019

Scientists use a promiscuous inhibitor to uncover cancer drug targets

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a method that exploits the multitargeted nature of a chemical inhibitor to pinpoint vulnerabilities within cancer cells.

5 Apr 2019

Researchers isolate compound that kills drug-resistant fungi from ant microbiota

Antimicrobial and antifungal resistance, which describe the ability of bacteria and other pathogens to resist the effects of drugs to which they were once sensitive, is a major public health problem worldwide.

5 Apr 2019

New class of molecules could someday become basis for Zika-specific therapeutic

The Zika virus is widely known for causing microcephaly and other brain defects in the fetuses of pregnant, infected women.

4 Apr 2019

New computational model of human kinase may provide insights for cancer drug development

Researchers have developed a computational model for human MEK1, a protein with potential as a drug target for a variety of human cancers.

4 Apr 2019

Researchers use metal-free catalyst to synthesize ketone from aldehyde

Ketones are important organic compounds found in a variety of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and natural products.

4 Apr 2019

AI-powered platform gives labs 24/7 monitoring and real-time data

Elemental Machines is giving laboratories peace of mind, saving them time and improving the accuracy of their studies with its AI-powered platform.

From Elemental Machines 3 Apr 2019

Molecular biologists develop pipeline to create and screen new lantibiotic peptides

Nature has provided us with lots of antimicrobials. However, given the rapid increase of antimicrobial resistance, there is a need for the development of new-to-nature antibiotics. Lantibiotics are an interesting option.

3 Apr 2019

Researchers synthesize nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms

Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms.

2 Apr 2019

3D Bioprinting and its Applications

In this interview, AZoM speaks to members of SunP Biotech about 3D bioprinting and its applications.

From SunP Biotech 1 Apr 2019

Scientists have more evidence of why clear margins in breast cancer surgery are such good news

When a breast cancer tumor is removed with no signs of cancer left behind, it's great news for patients, and now scientists have more evidence of why.

1 Apr 2019

Scientists develop new accurate computational method to enhance drug target stability

Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and the University of Southern California have developed a new computational method for the design of thermally stable G protein-coupled receptors that are of great help in creating new drugs.

30 Mar 2019