Cannabis destroys cancer cells
Scientists working in the UK have revealed that cannabis has the potential to destroy leukemia cells. The team – based at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry in London – have followed up on...
View ArticleAnthrax is new drug delivery vehicle
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT have engineered the bacteria to do just that. By disarming Bacillus anthracis and loading it with...
View ArticleLongitude Prize open for entries
The Longitude Prize to tackle resistance to antibiotics has opened today, 18 November. Entries for the £10m Prize should develop a transformative point-of-care test to identify when antibiotics are...
View ArticleSmart drugs impair the healthy
Smart drugs won’t make smart people smarter suggests new research from the University of Nottingham; instead it could impair their performance. A new study conducted by Dr Ahmed Dahir Mohamed focussed...
View Article‘Call for Targets’ of respiratory diseases
MRC Technology has announced a ‘call for targets’ to find new therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory diseases. The MRC is looking for academic researchers worldwide to accelerate the treatment...
View ArticleNew clue to sudden cardiac death in children
Cardiff University researchers have discovered a cause of sudden cardiac death in young children, opening up the possibility for a therapeutic target to develop a cure. Incoherent communication between...
View ArticleTreating cancer with wasp venom
Wasp venom is proving to be a novel source of inspiration for a new therapy for breast cancer. Scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Research in Barcelona (IRB Barcelona) have carried out in...
View ArticleThin-film technique for delivering pain medication
For those who suffer chronic pain, frequent pill popping helps ease the discomfort but a new advanced thin-film capable of delivering drugs over a period of months could provide an alternative....
View ArticleFast-tracked Ebola vaccine to enter trials
A potential vaccine against the Zaire species of Ebola, which has currently claimed 1,550 lives in West Africa, is to be tested on healthy patients in the UK and US. The candidate vaccine has been...
View ArticleNew heart drug beats current gold standard
Clinical trials of a new drug to treat heart failure were brought to an early close after results showed it outperformed the current gold standard. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine,...
View ArticleAutism therapy could eliminate symptoms
A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has shown promising results. The treatment – pioneered by the University of California Davis MIND Institute...
View Article‘Drug Discovery Booster’ for neglected diseases
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and four pharmaceutical companies have announced a consortium to accelerate drug discovery for two of the world’s most neglected diseases. The...
View Article‘Megafund’ to boost drug development
The Mayor of London – Boris Johnson – is planning to create a £10 billion ‘megafund’ to make the search for new drugs easier in London and across the country. At a conference, Mr Johnson announced his...
View ArticleChemical Probes Portal
New website – Chemical Probes Portal – has been launched to help researchers choose better quality research tools and avoid errors in biomedical research. The new site aims to predict the effects of...
View ArticleMenB vaccination programme launched
A new vaccination programme has been launched today which offers children protection against meningococcal group B (MenB) infection. MenB vaccination – added to the NHS Childhood Immunisation Programme...
View ArticleNovel therapies against parasitic diseases win Nobel Prize
A novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites has won William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The other half has been awarded to...
View ArticleNobel Prize round-up
In case you missed them, here is our round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Prize announcements in physiology, physics and chemistry. Each prize is worth 8 million SEK (£0.6 million), and is...
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