Sentences with phrase «as drug»

«There is currently an opioid crisis in the United States, and intraoperative methadone offers promise as a drug that can reduce the need for these pain medications during recovery.»

Polymers can also be modified in supercritical fluids for special applications such as drug delivery.

The introduction of nanocarriers as delivery vehicles for common chemotherapy agents such as the drug irinotecan, has led to improved survival of patients with this disease.

MYC has been notoriously elusive as a drug target.

As a drug hunter, this is great news.»

For years, United States public health officials have watched nervously as drug - resistant superbugs marched around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

«That doesn't mean you can immediately put this chemical on the market as a drug.

- catenin pathway could serve as drug targets for chronic and acute skin fibrosis conditions.»

Snyder hopes such partnerships, combined with the emergence of small companies that serve as drug - development innovators, will allow the pharmaceutical industry to rebound and create new jobs.

I read, with fascination, your article on venoms as drug candidates (5 May, p 34).

Moy's work focuses on the hormone oxytocin, which can be given as a drug to autism model mice and may encourage them to be more social.

«Research into diagnostic tests tends to focus on the «recognition», but what is special about this system is that it can think and that it can be connected to actuation such as drug delivery,» says professor of Biomedical Chemistry Maarten Merkx.

How did you come to develop it as a drug for the mass market?

The results could advance our understanding of marijuana's effects on the developing brain as the drug's rapidly changing legal status increases its recreational and medical use in the United States.

The researchers from UGA and Clarkson University in New York first created very fine nanoparticles that acted as drug carriers, one a substrate base carrying the drugs, and the other loaded with enzymes.

Barbara Evans of the University of Houston Law Center in Texas noted, however, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will have to decide whether gene editing should be treated as a drug or a medical device, because the two categories are regulated very differently.

Wender and others are also pursuing clinical trials for bryostatin 1 as a drug for HIV.

«It will be immediately relevant to many areas of fundamental cell biology research and practical applications such as drug discovery.

An essential new way to move discoveries forward has emerged in the form of multi-stakeholder collaborations involving three or more different types of organizations, such as drug companies, government regulators and patient groups, write Magdalini Papadaki, a research associate, and Gigi Hirsch, a physician - entrepreneur and executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.

However, sphingosine 1 - phosphate couldn't be administered as a drug because it is rapidly used up.

«Pancreatic tumor - induced gene may prove beneficial as a drug marker.»

Biologists believe that a combination of drugs may be needed to target cancer pathways, much as drug cocktails target HIV.

Heart disease was the leading cause of death for 2016, followed by cancer, unintentional injuries such as drug overdoses and car crashes, chronic lower respiratory diseases including asthma, and stroke.

Others tackle bigger issues, such as drug and vaccine safety and the use of stem cells for drug discovery.

Dr Wenxin Wang is trying to uncover therapies for diseases such as diabetic ulcers and Epidermolysis Bullosa, which causes chronic skin conditions: «We are currently investigating the use of these new materials for biomedical applications such as drug / gene delivery, cross linkable hydrogel materials and skin adhesives.

Analysis of Zika virus protease bound to a peptidomimetic inhibitor reveals its catalytic efficiency and promise as a drug target.

«Nobody's ever looked at nutrient transporters as drug targets because it's assumed that there will be hundreds more transporters, so it's a pointless pursuit,» Ahmer said.

«This suggests that FGF21 might someday be used as a drug to limit alcohol consumption and protect against its effects in people,» said Dr. Mangelsdorf, Chair of Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.

Of these variants, reported today in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, 65 are common variants that predispose to breast cancer and a further seven predispose specifically to oestrogen - receptor negative breast cancer - the subset of cases that do not respond to hormonal therapies, such as the drug tamoxifen.

«The idea is that we can recreate the major organ functions in a simplified way for use as a drug screening tool.

As novel applications, such as drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplace.

The Association of the German Pharmaceutical Industry represents approximately 310 German pharmaceutical companies and their interests with respect to issues such as drug licensing and reimbursement policy.

The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.

For those with food insecurity, that mostly meant carry - outs, corner stores and businesses such as drug stores that house partial markets.

Gómez - Ríos further shared that as a drug screening technique, coated blade spray - MS is ideal.

That meant the protein was not suitable as a drug, because it could not be delivered or manipulated directly.

This acid still needs to be converted into artemisinin before it can be used as a drug, yet researchers have found no enzyme that triggers such a change.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

A chemical originally used to clean pipes, and widely prescribed as a drug for osteoporosis, could also be breast cancer's nemesis.

A chemical originally used to clean pipes, and now widely prescribed as a drug for osteoporosis, could also be breast cancer's nemesis

«Our ambition is to simplify drug discovery — by using the cell's own metabolites as drug candidates,» Dalby says.

«Typically, that's not going to be a problem for most of us, but as drug - resistant forms of Enterobacteriaceae become more widespread, the odds will increase that we'll pass one of these superbugs on to a friend with a weakened immune system who can really be hurt by them.»

In 1981, as the drug's origins started to become better known, neurologists Andreas Plaitakis at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and Roger Duvoisin at Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey proposed at the Twelfth World Congress of Neurology that snowdrop might have been the plant that Hermes handed to Odysseus.

As drug - resistant genes become common in bacteria in the gut, they are more likely to pass on their information to truly dangerous bugs that only move periodically through our bodies, says Salyers.

That would further support the validity of this mechanism as a drug target.»

«There's no evidence people have tried to go after the coiled coil as a drug target,» Ball said, though he noted one paper suggested it might be worth a look.

«Investigators generating these torrents of P - values should be seen with sympathy as drug addicts in need of rehabilitation that will help them live a better, more meaningful scientific life in the future.»

Jasanoff is critical of how the cerebral mystique reduces problems of human behavior, such as drug addiction or eating disorders, to problems of the brain.

«This is a very promising finding, as the drug holds potential to affect the course of the disease itself, and not merely the symptoms,» said the study's senior author, Professor Tom Foltynie (UCL Institute of Neurology).

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.