Sentences with phrase «drug lab at»

Did you know that the vast majority of Americans have lived within a few hundred yards of an illicit drug lab at some point in their lives?

Did you know that the vast majority of Americans have lived within a few hundred yards of an illicit drug lab at some point in their lives?

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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.

Armed with new methods for detecting EPO, Graham Trout and his colleagues at Australia's Sports Drug Testing lab have Olympic cheaters in their crosshairs

burned their home in 98 by meth lab & daughter now goin thru trial — molested & abused at 4 & 5 — still bein left with single, unstable, alcoholics & drug abusers — no one including cps cares.

While there are at - home drug test kits available for steroid use, they are expensive and have to be sent to a lab to get your results.

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.

This juncture between basic research and the drug development process first began to interest Conley when she was still a postdoc at Michigan, where she had an «amazing experience» in a «world - renowned research lab.»

While clinicians have been looking at different ways to prevent higher blood glucose levels by prescribing anti-diabetic drugs, Wright said his lab is interested in exercise physiology and trying to figure out how exercise can improve glucose homeostasis.

«It's particularly encouraging in this study that even at relatively low concentrations the liver drug still had an effect on Parkinson's cells grown in the lab.

Doug Mahoney's lab at the University of Calgary recently discovered an immunotherapy that uses existing cancer drugs in a whole new way.

Roughly 1200 of these are research labs, which are often housed at major academic centers or run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«The ongoing line of work with this drug is an excellent example of the bench getting even closer to the bedside — our lab work with the drug in patient - derived xenograft models of disease makes possible the clinical trials taking place at the University of Colorado Hospital next door,» Jimeno says.

«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.

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.

In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.

«We Should Have Been Told» Cross-checking U.S. and European public records, including regulatory filings, scientific studies and civil lawsuits, ProPublica was able to identify a few of the drugs that are on the U.S. market because of tests performed at Cetero's Houston lab (see chart.)

Dr Dusko Ilic, leader of the team at King's College London, says: «Our new method can be used to grow much greater quantities of lab - grown human epidermal equivalents, and thus could be scaled up for commercial testing of drugs and cosmetics.

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.

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.

Realizing they might have a potentially effective drug on their hands, Bogyo and his colleagues brought in Sonnenburg, whose lab is adept at using mouse models of C. difficile infection.

They tested these drugs one at a time for lethal interaction with 112 different tumor - suppressor gene mutations in human cancer cells growing in the lab.

The model, described in a study published this week in Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing, will enable researchers to study potential disease causes and test new drugs to treat IBD, said study author Amy Dawson, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of John Greenman at the University of Hull, U.K..

Studying how genes affect different drugs manufactured by different companies gives Poirier greater influence on future drug development, he feels, which would not be possible if he was employed at any one pharmaceutical research lab.

Using an XPS instrument at the synchrotron lab MAX IV in Sweden, they found that the antibacterial silver coating actually breaks down the drugs.

Detecting explosives and drugs will not be easy, warns Rachel Cunningham of the innovation lab at Thames Water, which manages London's sewers.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the trial in January 2009 but put it on hold last September because of safety concerns after lab animals injected with stem cells developed small cysts at the injury site.

«Essentially, we took a step back and said instead of creating yet another cocktail of multiple drugs to stop the different mechanisms of HIV, we thought we could design one that hit multiple targets at once,» says Anthony Prosser, a graduate student in Liotta's lab.

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.

«Drugs of abuse target the pathways of the pleasure centers very effectively,» said first author Gabriel Bossé, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Randall Peterson's lab at U of U Health.

The couple, cancer biologists Renata Pasqualini and Wadih Arap, who run a lab together at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has a unique way of thinking about drug development.

«We have bioengineered micro-scale heart tissues with a method that can easily be reproduced, which will enable scientists in stem cell biology and the drug industry to study heart cells in their proper context,» said first author Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conklin lab at Gladstone.

In the lab of Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Francine Einstein (not a descendant) has given an experimental drug to 30 rats while shining a light on their visceral fat.

At the same time, new drugs have been slow to emerge from research labs, even after Pfizer's efforts to beef up its pipeline following a takeover of Wyeth in 2009.

The physiologist and her team at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing were testing how a certain drug affects bone density, and they found that treated lab mice lost bone compared with controls.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

«Our research adds weight to the idea that effective antifungal drugs can target even those mitochondrial proteins that are highly conserved in humans and fungi, and that this could be a way to make a broad spectrum antifungal combination therapy that would be less susceptible to resistance,» says Benjamin Vincent, a former graduate student in Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab who is now a scientist at Yumanity Therapeutics.

Back in the lab, Vaquer, along with Elisabet Cuyás, a biochemistry Ph.D. student at IMIM, will determine how well the transporters did their job of storing the drug inside the vesicles, compared with a control experiment on Earth.

Vaquer designed experiments to test the behavior of drugs in microgravity during his spare time, while he was working in the lab of pharmacologist Rafael de la Torre at IMIM, focusing on a family of membrane proteins called ABC transporters.

Now a team of researchers, led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it has identified just such a drug in the lab: indazole chloride (Ind - Cl).

An oral drug used to treat an illness unrelated to HIV eradicated infectious HIV - producing cells in lab cultures while sparing uninfected cells — and suppressed the virus in patients during treatment and for at least eight weeks after the drug was stopped, according to results of a clinical pilot trial and researchers at Rutgers University and Dartmouth College.

In addition, a study published last year found that administering an opioid blocker decreased people's feelings of social connectedness — both when they were in the lab receiving e-mails of support from close friends or relatives and when they were at home during the four days they took the drug — compared with when they took a placebo.

The molecular graphics software called Chimera, written and supported by a team of scientists in Tom Ferrin's lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been cited over 7000 times and helps biologists and drug developers visualize molecules and biological structures in 3D at various resolutions.

Dr. Levin's lab is investigating a new class of drugs that are highly effective at keeping RGCs alive when the optic nerve is damaged by glaucoma.

Following that he moved back to the United States to join the Neuroscience Discovery department at Amgen in San Francisco, where he applied his wet lab (molecular and cellular neurobiology) and dry lab (human genetics and integrative genomics) expertise to drug hunting for AD.

«In our lab, we investigate the brain mechanisms behind drug addiction — a common and devastating disease with limited treatment options,» explained Christopher Cowan, PhD, director of the Integrative Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists at the Bar Harbor - based MDI Biological Laboratory have been awarded a patent — the first for the lab — for MSI - 1436, a potential new heart disease drug that stimulates the repair and regeneration of heart tissue damaged by injuries and heart attacks.

«The right drug at the right dose, taken for the right duration, is life - saving,» says Alison Halpin, a molecular epidemiologist at the CDC whose lab produced the study.

He joined the lab of Stephen Fesik, who is now at Vanderbilt but at the time was developing structure - activity relationship (SAR) by NMR, an approach to drug discovery using NMR.