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Antiviral treatments lead to development of a new kind of cancer drug
Drugs that were being developed to treat enterovirus have also been found to treat certain cancers in mice.
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Faster drug discovery could hit ‘undruggable’ targets
A new technique has been developed which has the potential to harness bacteria to produce billions of different drug candidates to treat diseases like cancer.
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Pharmacological chaperone therapy shown to prevent Alzheimer’s in mice
A new study is the first to describe a novel pharmacological chaperone that is capable of preventing Alzheimer's disease in mice.
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Antiviral compound could be used to fight influenza
A study in mice has found that a compound modelled on a protein found in bananas safely protects against multiple strains of the influenza virus.
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Researchers discover how gut infections may produce chronic symptoms
A new study into why neurons in the gut die and how the immune system protects them could lead to better treatments for IBS that work by boosting polyamine production.
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Study shows cheap drug could alleviate treatment-resistance in leukaemia
A clinical study is to be launched after researchers found that a common and inexpensive drug may be used to counteract treatment resistance in patients with AML.
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Endometriosis symptoms in mice improved by cannabinoids
A new study in mice has suggested that cannabinoids can relieve pain caused by endometriosis and paves the way for further clinical research.
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Stem cell models of human spine development unveiled
Scientists have created the first lab-dish models of the cellular clock, where each 'tick' stimulates the formation of the vertebra, which uses stem cells derived from adult human tissue.
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New route identified for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
A new therapeutic route for combatting treatment-resistant cancer has been identified with the discovery that melanoma cells fight anti-cancer drugs by changing their internal skeleton.
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Cancer cells killed in mice using copper-based nanomaterials
Copper oxide nanoparticles have successfully killed tumour cells in mice and when combined with immunotherapy, could work as a vaccine for cancer.
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Learning and memory of ageing mice improved with stem cells
It has been discovered that cognitive functions such as memory and learning in old mice are improved with more stem cells and neurons.
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Process that immune cells use to detect infections and cancers discovered
Researchers have discovered how gamma-delta T cells become activated which could lead to the development of new and improved immunotherapy treatments.
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Study paves way for new vaccines to protect infants against infections
An mRNA vaccine has been developed which has elicited strong immune responses in mice in the presence of maternal antibodies.
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Protein injections in medicine could one day be possible, says new study
A new study could lead to medical compounds one day being introduced into cells with the help of bacterial toxin and could open up new possibilities in cancer medicine.
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Origins and potential therapies for a neurodegenerative disorder found
Various potential therapeutic opportunities to treat spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) have been discovered in a new study into the neurodegenerative disorder.