Sentences with phrase «chemical classes of drug»

Corey's team has three different chemical classes of drug that all do the same thing - help cells reduce levels of the mutant HD gene.

His team has three different chemical classes of drug that all do the same thing - help cells reduce levels of the mutant HD gene.

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The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a new class of drugs called small molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.

To do so, he sat down with The Merck Index, a standard reference manual for chemicals, drugs, and other compounds, and turned to the section on the class of hormones to which norbolethone's precursor belonged.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

«Furthermore, they demonstrate that a new chemical class binds to an alternative site on the enzyme, which overcomes existing drug resistance and opens up the exciting possibility for development of a novel class of anti-TB drugs.»

A new class of drugs under development to treat depression has shown some success by targeting brain cells» ability to respond to the chemical messenger glutamate.

Working with SBP's Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, we are uniquely positioned for the state - of - art drug discovery process with world - class experts in pharmaceutical and biotech drug discovery.

As a postdoc at Alnylam, he's been looking at how chemical modifications on a class of RNAs called small interfering RNAs can make them better drugs.

The fact that atrazine uses the aromatase pathway to increase estrogen production is important, because it means the chemical could work directly against aromatase inhibitors, a class of drugs used to treat breast cancer.