Sentences with phrase «as drug labs»

A second key test is a Neighborhood Environmental Report, which offers information as to whether a home has been busted as a drug lab or whether other environmental factors affect the property.

Once it is common knowledge that the home was used as a drug lab, the equity of the home drastically decreases and cleanup costs range anywhere from $ 5,000 to $ 100,000, depending on the size of the home, the degree of the contamination and the stringency of local requirements.

Not exact matches

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

There are numerous services he says Linear could be selling to overseas clients such as lab tests, assays, particular medical compounding or a process that looks for a biomarker, a signal in the blood that shows whether a certain drug being trialled is working or not.

For drug barons (the legal kind), what happens in the law courts can be as important as events in the lab.

He said that reports of him manufacturing illegal drugs such as crystal meth in his lab are unfounded.

The most extreme valuations include mass retailers such as Wal - Mart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, Kohls, and Lowe's, and large drug and healthcare companies such as Amgen, Abbott Labs, Baxter, American Home Products, Forest Labs, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Stryker, United Healthcare, and Tenet.

Essentially, as these drugs are produced by naturally grown compounds (instead of in a lab) they are easy to create and represent a threat to the interests of big - pharma.

«We were in the initial stages of an investigation on that block,» to determine if there was «a possible drug lab, as a possible grow house,» NYPD commissioner James O'Neill said.

That's why Science recognized the idea of «treatment as prevention» as its scientific breakthrough of the year, crediting the lab of infectious diseases researcher Myron Cohen, a physician - scientist at the University of North Carolina School (UNC) of Medicine in Chapel Hill, with discovering and investigating one of the most promising antiretroviral drugs, HPTN 052.

And in March 2016, when Harvard licensed compounds that Shair's lab had developed to Merck for an initial payment of $ 20 million, with the potential of additional payments as the compounds progress and royalties if a resulting drug eventually comes to market, the inventors stood to hit the financial jackpot.

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

Although there is no cure for SMA currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has listed SMA as the neurological disease closest to finding a cure, due in part to effective drugs like the one developed in Lorson's lab.

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

David Kessler, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, is calling for a big government - funded research project to help fill in the gaps in genetic pathways in people, which are turning out to be far more complex than expected for illnesses such as heart disease and which may be beyond the ability of private companies and smaller labs to figure out and pay for.

In addition to running his own lab, he directs the Applied Neurotherapeutic Research Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to identify new drug targets for diseases such as schizophrenia.

Researchers in the Rice lab of chemist and bioengineer Jeffrey Hartgerink had just such an experience with the hydrogels they developed as a synthetic scaffold to deliver drugs and encourage the growth of cells and blood vessels for new tissue.

The team challenged a highly infectious and pathogenic bacterium called Pseudomonas aeruginosa — which flourishes in medical equipment, such as catheters, and causes inflammation, sepsis and organ failure — with both the traditional drugs and eCAPs in the lab.

Lab results are impressive: the drug is as effective against the 26th generation as it is against the first.

According to U.S. and European records, another one of the drugs approved based on research at Cetero's troubled Houston lab was a chemotherapy drug known as Temodar for Injection.

Houses formerly used as meth labs, called meth houses, put their residents at risk of serious health consequences, says Stan Smith, a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Drug Endangered Children Task Force, a division of the California Drug Enforcement Agency.

Fast forward 2 years: Gray is working as a postdoc in the lab of USC oncology researcher Michael Wong, on a nanoparticle drug delivery system.

However, CiRA researchers from Professor Junya Tochuchda's lab instead looked at molecules related with inflammation, finding Activin - A as a candidate drug target.

During her final two years at the agency, she had directed the Lab of Antiviral Drug Mechanisms, where she studied therapies for AIDS as well as one of its associated cancers, Kaposi's sarcoma.

«They're made by sophisticated chemistry labs that are producing not just one drug, but also analogs of that drug, so as soon as one drug gets banned, here comes the next one, and the next one — and there's no evidence of any kind of safety testing prior to their release into the drug user population.»

And as Clevers's lab has shown, organoids can help predict how an individual will respond to a drug — making personalized medicine a reality.

Hartung's start - up, Organome, plans to market them soon as a substitute for lab animals in drug testing.

As part of a second trial, Swanton's lab will also study what happens to tumors under the selective pressure of various types of cancer therapies, from traditional chemotherapy to targeted drugs.

Their setup resembles clinical trials, such as one where doctors test a drug by comparing lab rats that get the drug with those that don't.

If we can use coconut oil as a safe, dietary alternative, we could decrease the amount of antifungal drugs used, reserving antifungal drugs for critical situations,» said first author Kearney Gunsalus, Ph.D., an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development (IRACDA) postdoctoral fellow at the Sackler School in Kumamoto's lab.

The surfaces could also be used to test drugs in the lab, Wong says, or perhaps as biomimetic surfaces for implantable tissue scaffolds or neural implants.

Cecelia Wall, a graduate student in Drs. Heitman and Maria Cardenas» labs, had been looking for mutations that would make the human fungal pathogen M. circinelloides resistant to the antifungal drug FK506 (also known as tacrolimus).

Nitazoxanide is a drug that treats a broad spectrum of parasites and can be used as treatment for patients with persistent diarrhea who test negative for a pathogen in the lab.

On a hunch, Bradley Lang, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a graduate student in Dr. Silver's lab, came up with the idea of designing a drug that would help axons regenerate without having to touch the healing spinal cord, as current treatments may require.

The VA - UAB team says, based on its lab studies, that honokiol binds more strongly with EGFR than does the drug gefitinib (sold as Iressa), which is commonly used to treat head and neck cancers.

As published in the article, his lab team determined that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat type II diabetes, reduces the intensity of seizures.

Lab tests showed that this drug works as well as expected in cells (Cell, doi.org/chz8).

In a May 2014 study, Nagrath and colleagues found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells were glutamine - dependent and that depriving the cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage ovarian cancer cells in the lab.

Once a compound from the NCI bank shows promise, larger quantities of the drug are synthesized in the laboratory - a task that is relatively easy for Simon, who is trained as an organic chemist and has amassed a lab full of elaborate glassware and vials filled with mysterious powders.

To take a finding in basic research, such as identifying a mutant protein that drives a particular cancer, and develop a drug that inactivates the protein and performs well in cells in the lab and in animal models can take years, if not decades.

He is also in the process of launching a clinical trial of an FDA - approved anti-epileptic drug that — as his lab discovered in 2012 — might improve brain functions in Alzheimer's disease.

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Dr. Aldred's lab will evaluate a new therapeutic approach known as nonsense readthrough, testing two drugs that may be able to correct genetic defects in an important cell - signaling pathway.

Seungkyu Lee and Eugene A. Kapustin, Berkeley Lab researchers and UC Berkeley graduate students who participated in the latest work, said hard - to - study proteins, such as those important for drug development, are high - priority targets for the new technique.

Based on basic transcriptional studies of midbrain dopamine neurons, Dr. Kim's lab identified the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 as a potential drug target of Parkinson's disease (PD) to develop novel drug candidates for neuroprotective and mechanism - based therapeutics.

He will get the truth and fix the current system of allowing the drug companies to use our children as free lab rats to test their pricy, poisonous meds on.

The team has tested its triple threat nanoparticles, containing drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer (such as doxorubicin, cisplatin and camptothecin), against lab - grown ovarian cancer cells.

Benoit's lab, in the meantime, has been developing polymer nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs to specific parts of the body where a disease occurs, in order to minimize damage to healthy tissues.

canSAR contains information on the entire human proteome — the protein equivalent of the human genome - as well as linking to information on more than 1,000 cancer cells lines, used by researchers to study the effect of new drugs in the lab.

Cleveland and the members of his lab use these therapies, also known as designer DNA drugs, to silence genes involved in the development of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Lou Gehrig's disease.