To make a compound work better
against a specific disease target, medicinal chemists optimize the drug, tweaking its structure or physical properties to make it more effective and safer.
The new process, called Extensive Combinatorial Refinement (ExCoR), could help improve the development of drug candidates that depend to a great degree on detailed structural analysis to determine how they
work against specific disease targets.
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cover against specific diseases like heart diseases and cancer.
«Evaluations of immunization programs are usually based on the assumption that vaccines only
protect against specific diseases,» says the study's lead author, Dr Paul Welaga from the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Ghana.
Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome - editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes that protect
against specific diseases.
As vaccine recipients, we usually think only of the ability of the vaccine to protect
us against a specific disease, but here the effects on the whole population and on the influenza virus itself are being considered.
Vaccinations are injections that are given to your pet to protect
them against specific diseases.