Sentences with phrase «yield potential drug»

A team led by Bill Baker of the University of South Florida in Tampa dive in Antarctic waters to collect organisms that might yield potential drug molecules.

Not exact matches

A seaweed - like marine invertebrate contains a molecule that has piqued interest as a drug but is in short supply: Collecting 14 tons of the critters, a type of bryozoan, yields just 18 grams of the potential medicine.

While the commercial potential might not be immediate, Duncan says the collaboration could yield concrete rewards for the companies, such as new R&D avenues from identification of novel drug targets.

Knowing the shape of every protein would yield new clues to their function and how they work, and ultimately provide thousands of potential new drug targets.