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Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity

July 15, 2014
A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the disease.A study published in The Lancet suggests that the injected polio...

Diabetes medication ‘doing more harm than good’

July 2, 2014
Diabetes treatments could be doing more harm than good; particularly for the over 75s suggests new research. For many people, the benefits of taking diabetes medications – insulin injections or...

Antibiotic resistance chosen as greatest scientific problem

June 30, 2014
The British public have chosen antibiotic resistance as the most pressing scientific problem facing the world today. Scientists, institutions, organisations and individuals are now being invited to register their interest...

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy

June 26, 2014
A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been found by researchers in America. Zebrafish provided a screenable model of the disease with a cardiac myocyte-specific...

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery

June 24, 2014
A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The team have discovered that a certain kind of dendrimer – a...

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance

June 23, 2014
A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the University of East Anglia and Diamond Light Source. The powerful beams of light...

Statins of questionable value

June 19, 2014
Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adults to a lifetime of popping pills of questionable value say a group of leading...

Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease

June 13, 2014
A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and motor neuron disease; a finding which offers a new target for drug discovery....

New method to detect counterfeit drugs

June 9, 2014
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis method developed by researchers at the University of Montreal. The method identifies and quantifies the various...

Combating drug resistance in melanoma

June 2, 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family of proteins. Cancer Research UK scientists at the CRUK Manchester Institute have found that the...

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