Items tagged with drug

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New Botanical Drug Silences Peanut Allergy Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 - 15:56:17 - Ehud Rattner A new study finds that a botanical drug could provide the key to new treatments for peanut allergies. The findings are published online in The... read more

Drug Banishes Bad Memories Monday, February 16th, 2009 - 16:02:05 - Sarah Gingichashvili In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a couple have their memories of each other wiped when their relationship ends badly. But now in a... read more

Electroporation 'Knife' for Cancer Friday, February 6th, 2009 - 12:45:26 - Anuradha Menon Electroporation, a technique that microbiologists have long used experimentally to temporarily punch holes in cell membranes and ferry drugs or genes... read more

'Crystal Ball' Personalizes Cancer Treatment Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 - 19:36:38 - Ehud Rattner For many cancer patients, chemotherapy can be worse than cancer itself. A patient may respond to one drug but not another - or the tumor may mutate... read more

Is Salvia a Miracle Drug? Monday, February 2nd, 2009 - 19:43:57 - Ehud Rattner Some researchers argue against criminalizing the psychedelic, saying that it could help treat various ailments, including cancer, HIV, and addiction... read more

The Side Effects of Parkinson's Treatment Friday, January 30th, 2009 - 10:34:42 - Anuradha Menon People with Parkinson's disease commonly suffer a slowing or freezing of movement caused by the death of neurons that make dopamine, a key chemical... read more

Aspirin May Prevent Liver Damage Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 - 18:01:26 - Ehud Rattner Simple aspirin may prevent liver damage in millions of people suffering from side effects of common drugs, alcohol abuse, and obesity-related liver... read more

MRSA's 'Weak Point' Visualised by Scientists Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 16:39:57 - Anuradha Menon An enzyme that lives in MRSA and helps the dangerous bacterium to grow and spread infection through the human body has been visualised for the first... read more

Engineering Plants to Produce New Compounds Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 - 10:34:59 - Anuradha Menon In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce... read more

Kellogg Recalls Products Due To Salmonella Saturday, January 17th, 2009 - 16:52:57 - Anuradha Menon At this time, the Food and Drug Administration based, in part, on sample results by the State of Minnesota, has traced one likely source of... read more

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