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Chemical Probes Portal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2015

New website – Chemical Probes Portal – has been launched to help researchers choose better quality …

‘Megafund’ to boost drug development

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2015

The Mayor of London – Boris Johnson – is planning to create a £10 billion ‘megafund’ to make the se…

‘Drug Discovery Booster’ for neglected diseases

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2015

The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and four pharmaceutical companies have announced…

‘Call for Targets’ of respiratory diseases

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2015

MRC Technology has announced a ‘call for targets’ to find new therapeutics for the treatment of res…

Smart drugs impair the healthy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2014

Smart drugs won’t make smart people smarter suggests new research from the University of Nottingham…

Longitude Prize open for entries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2014

The Longitude Prize to tackle resistance to antibiotics has opened today, 18 November.!--more-- En…

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…

Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Sep 2014

A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has sh…

New heart drug beats current gold standard

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2014

Clinical trials of a new drug to treat heart failure were brought to an early close after results s…

Fast-tracked Ebola vaccine to enter trials

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Aug 2014

A potential vaccine against the Zaire species of Ebola, which has currently claimed 1,550 lives in …

Thin-film technique for delivering pain medication

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Aug 2014

For those who suffer chronic pain, frequent pill popping helps ease the discomfort but a new advanc…

Treating cancer with wasp venom

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Aug 2014

Wasp venom is proving to be a novel source of inspiration for a new therapy for breast cancer.!--mo…

New clue to sudden cardiac death in children

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2014

Cardiff University researchers have discovered a cause of sudden cardiac death in young children, o…

Daily aspirin could keep cancer away

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014

Taking aspirin daily could significantly reduce the risk of developing major cancers of the digesti…

Hope for sufferers of rare childhood disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jul 2014

Scientists as Newcastle University have taken the first step toward treating the rare childhood dis…

Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014

A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the di…

Diabetes medication ‘doing more harm than good’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2014

Diabetes treatments could be doing more harm than good; particularly for the over 75s suggests new …

Antibiotic resistance chosen as greatest scientific problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2014

The British public have chosen antibiotic resistance as the most pressing scientific problem facing…

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014

A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been …

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014

A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pen…