Drug Discovery
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China Advances in Gene Therapy
China is making headway in gene therapy. Without regulatory obstacles, Chinese researchers are able to take it one step further by developing ideas originated from U.S. Gendicine combines with a gene named p53 which suppresses tumor formations, with …
Drug Discovery | 10 March 2006
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Scientists Develop Powerful Drug Discovery System
Researchers from the Florida State University (FSU) and Scripps Florida have developed a system to analyze how drugs bind to proteins that will in turn increase the rate of delivering drugs and improve on existing ones. A Fourier transform ICR mas…
Drug Discovery | 06 March 2006
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Oxygenix to Establish R&D Center in Singapore
Japanese-based Oxygenix Co., Ltd announced that it has concluded an agreement with Bio*One Capital to establish an R&D facility in Singapore to generate therapeutic drugs, including small molecules and biologics, using Oxygenix’s liposome design an…
Drug Discovery | 03 March 2006
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Cracking of Deadly Fungus Gene Code may Open Doors to New Drugs
The cracking of the gene code behind a key family of fungi responsible for deadly infections may help to combat diseases and lead to development in new drugs. Experiments reveal that the ‘genome sequences’ or genetic maps of the fungi family…
Drug Discovery | 21 February 2006
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Race is On to Develop Avian Flu Vaccine
Efforts are currently underway by vaccine makers to cultivate vaccines amid fears of an influenza pandemic. Using a process known as reverse genetics, “enables a vaccine to be manufactured using the standard technology of production in fertiliz…
Drug Discovery | 21 February 2006
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China Gives Green Light to Cancer Gene Therapy
China becomes the first country in the world to issue a regulatory approval to gene therapy treatment for cancer. Shanghai Sunway Biotech has been given the official go-ahead to sell the H101 drug which uses a cold virus to destroy tumor cells withou…
Drug Discovery | 21 February 2006
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Wyeth Enters into Research Partnership with GVK Biosciences
US-based Wyeth Pharmaceuticals has signed a research agreement with one of India’s contract research organizations (CROs) GVK Biosciences located in Hyderabad. According to Frank Walsh, executive vice president and head of discovery research at …
Drug Discovery | 21 February 2006
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Alternative HIV Vaccine Proposed
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA scientists demonstrated that inhibiting a molecule called suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS1), could provide a new HIV vaccine approach. Prior attempts to generate an HIV vaccine have met with limited s…
Drug Discovery | 01 February 2006
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X-ray Crystallography Reveals F Protein Structure
Northwestern University, Chicago, scientists have characterized the parainfluenza virus 5 fusion (F) protein structure. Their findings appeared in the January 5 issue of Nature. The F protein allows paramyxovirus family viruses, which cause many dise…
Drug Discovery | 01 February 2006
