Items tagged with drug

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Model Predicts How to Build a Better Stent Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 12:03:51 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary... read more

Tiny Gold Particles to Treat Cancer Friday, January 2nd, 2009 - 18:21:01 - Anuradha Menon Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a... read more

Honey Bees on Cocaine Dance More Thursday, December 25th, 2008 - 12:07:10 - Ehud Rattner In a study that challenges current ideas about the insect brain, researchers have found that honey bees on cocaine tend to exaggerate. Normally... read more

Is Morphine a Guy Drug? Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 - 10:31:07 - Ehud Rattner Men get more relief than women do from painkillers like morphine, according to some studies. New research, conducted by Anne Murphy, a neuroscientist... read more

Reprogramming Skin Cells for Drugs Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 - 18:12:09 - Ehud Rattner Skin cells from a patient with a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have been reprogrammed into stem cells that can be used as a... read more

Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 - 15:58:13 - Ehud Rattner MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of... read more

Easier Way to Develop Protein-Based Drug Friday, December 12th, 2008 - 18:39:42 - Anuradha Menon Research by a Michigan State University chemist could eventually lead to a quicker and easier way of developing protein-based drugs which are key to... read more

MIT Sheds Light on Alzheimer's Mystery Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 18:34:24 - Anuradha Menon In work that could lead to new drugs to target Alzheimer's disease, MIT researchers and colleagues have shed light on one of the molecular mysteries... read more

A Cure for AIDS? Not Quite Sunday, November 16th, 2008 - 18:35:56 - Ehud Rattner Yet another rash of stories touting a putative HIV/AIDS cure has gripped the media. This one involves a man with both leukemia and HIV, who received... read more

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