Sentences with phrase «drug design now»

Prior to that he was CEO of Molecular Simulations, Inc., a $ 100 MM supplier of software for drug design now called Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL).

Not exact matches

Drugs that were effective at warding off infections decades ago are now less potent because the bacteria they were designed to kill have developed defence mechanisms.

In a 1992 article in The North American Review entitled «The Corruption of Nobility: The Rise & Fall of Thoroughbred Racing in America,» Ferraro penned a stinging rebuke against drug abuse on the backstretch, saying, «In general, treatments designed to repair a horse's injuries and to alleviate its suffering are now often used to get the animal out onto the track to compete — to force the animal, like some punch - drunk fighter, to make just one more round.

Now that researchers know from their cell studies that this family of receptors can essentially flip its own switch, they can use that information to design drugs to prevent that from happening when it shouldn't.

She says a number of experimental drugs now in clinical trials are designed to target serotonin in other ways in the brain, and may have better success than the SSRIs.

«Our computer aided drug screening process has now identified two new classes of anti-cancer agents, specifically targeting two distinct and novel mechanisms underpinning cancer,» said Dr Andrea Brancale from Cardiff University's School of Pharmacy, who led on the compound's design.

«Now the challenge is to design experimental studies using biomarkers in cognitively normal people to determine who can really benefit from the drugs.»

Ad agencies are now in a position to help design studies so that the results will create the best possible marketing opportunities for the drug companies.

Learning more about the new strains could help public health officials to determine which drugs might be effective and to design new vaccines for the next flu season, which will likely include strains that are now circulating.

«Now, because we know the resistance mechanism, we can design elements to minimize the emergence of resistance as these promising new drug candidates are developed,» said Ben Shen, a TSRI professor who led the study, which was published February 20, 2014 online ahead of print by the Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology.

DeCode is now negotiating with some of the world's largest pharmaceuticals companies, which hope to use deCode's genetic insights to design new drugs.

A race is now on to commercialize quantum computers, making them available to companies that want to solve problems particularly suited to quantum machines, such as designing new materials or speeding up the search for new drugs.

Professor Michael Lisanti, who designed the study, explained: «We now know that a proportion of cancer cells escape chemotherapy and develop drug resistance; we established this new strategy to find out how they do it.

Determining the similarities of molecular structures now plays an important role in designing all kinds of new molecules — mainly drugs, but also pesticides, fuels, polymers and substitutes for blood and other body fluids.

Now the precise structure of the pyripyropenes is known, chemists should be able to design similar molecules that may be even more effective at blocking ACAT and form the basis of drugs to treat atherosclerosis.

Now researchers have identified a protein that may be a good target for designing drugs to improve the stability and strength of broken bones.

Until now, agents that inhibit Pin1 have been developed mainly through rational drug design.

Drugs originally designed to treat mental disorders are now being taken by perfectly healthy people.

On the other hand, first clinical trials with drugs designed to target cancer stem cells are now under way, so far yielding moderately positive results.

It is now possible to design drugs that go right to the vulnerable target of a disorder, thanks to the research produced from the Human Genome Project.

We're now testing new drugs designed to target and kill the cancer stem cells.

Now that we understand why, we can design better drugs to combat cystic fibrosis in humans.»

Children as young as 18 months are now receiving antipsychotic drugs, despite the fact that the diseases they're designed to treat rarely develop before adolescence.

They're designing drugs now that are blocking mTOR, and they define it as molecule that helps drive the growth of many tumors.

Now, the justices are trying to decide whether generic drug manufacturers can be sued in state court for design defects - especially when the generic version is an exact copy of its brand - name counterpart that the federal government had already approved.

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