Med-Chemist : "Quintessential Medicinal Chemistry"
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Nano-insulin pill ?
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In my earlier blog , I wrote about the use of nanoparticles in the field of Pharmaceutical will happen in the near future. B...
Obesity may be contagious !
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When I read this title, I was amazed and went into the details, which are really interesting. According to Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar (Pe...
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Diverse use of Nucleic acids.....
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There is much interest in the medical uses of nucleic acids. For example, antisense, ribozymes, aptamer and RNA interference (RNAi) technolo...
Insulin from plants ?
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With the increasing diabetic patients the requirement of insulin is also increasing. As we are aware that most insulin products a...
Use of Liquid crystals in high-resolution digital X-rays !
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We have seen many applications of liquid crystals, but now something interesting like "X-ray light valve" (a term coined by Dr.J...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
An abondoned anticancer drug's rebirth...
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α-Difluoromethylornithine or DFMO, which was developed as a cancer therapy and later shelved because of toxicity concerns, has been around s...
Structure of key Ebola protein solved.....
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The Ebola virus can cause hemorrhagic fever that is usually fatal. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, o...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Genetic modification of E. coli, a bacterium to produce long-chain alcohols essential in the creation of biofuels- a new avenue of biofules ?
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Alcohols were never synthesized beyond five carbons. Now, J ames Liao, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and hi...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A new avenue for TB therapy !
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TB bacteria actually sends signals that encourage the growth of those organized granuloma structures, and for good reason: each granuloma se...
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Blood type - a new weapon in battle against HIV infection ?
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A carbohydrate-containing antigen, termed Pk blood group which is distinct from the well-known ABO and Rh blood grouping system...
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Clioquinol as anti-aging agent?
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Clioquinol (5-Chloro-7-iodo-8-hydroxyquinoline), an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders - can...
Olanzapine as long-acting injection (LAI) for acute and maintenance treatment of schizophrenia.?
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Olanzapine (2-methyl-4-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-10H-thieno[2,3-b][1,5]benzodiazepine) is one of the most commonly used drugs for atypical an...
New Benzothiazepine test to catch sports cheats ?
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Though there are many tests for drugs (performance enhancers) for the sportpersons, they will try to use the drugs (wherein there ar...
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Mechanism of synthesizing estrogen visualized.....
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Dr. Ghosh lab , has determined the structures of all three of the enzymes (aromatase, sulfatase and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydr...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy new Year 2009
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Wish you all, A happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year-2009 .
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