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.
Not exact matches
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.