Sentences with phrase «develop synthetic compounds»

By understanding how the body's natural hormones operate, they aim to develop synthetic compounds to target these receptors in order to create drugs to treat diseases.

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When the team exposed workers to a synthetic version of these scent compounds, the workers» ovaries didn't develop, even though no queen was nearby (Science, doi.org/q26).
A combination of genetic modification and synthetic drug development was used to create the new compound, which so far has only been developed in laboratory, not commercial quantities.
It developed synthetic sirtuin activating compounds (STACs) that are more powerful than resveratrol in the hope that they can treat age - related disorders such as type 2 diabetes and vascular disorders.
Seeking to exploit this weakness and develop a new class of antifungals, an international group of researchers screened a synthetic drug library for compounds that target the synthesis of fungal but not mammalian GlcCer.
The research team developed novel ways to screen a remarkable 82,000 synthetic compounds to identify those that would serve as effective antibiotics but not be toxic to humans.
Prior research had developed a number of new compounds making use of a novel drug discovery paradigm which begins with natural products extracted from plants; it then entails selecting synthetic derivatives which demonstrate efficacy in multiple assays testing protection against different factors of the nerve cell damage and death which take place in brain injuries and in age - associated neurodegenerative conditions.
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