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Sanguinarine shows promise against triple-negative breast cancer
A new study in cell cultures has shown that the sanguinarine plant compound could be used to treat people with triple-negative breast cancer.
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Hepatitis C drugs shown to boost remdesivir’s activity against SARS-CoV-2
Four hepatitis C drugs have demonstrated promise as boosters to increase the efficacy of remdesivir against SARS-CoV-2 by as much as tenfold.
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Inhibiting METTL3 enzyme combats acute myeloid leukaemia in mice
Scientists have developed a drug called STM2457 which inhibits a key enzyme involved in acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Scientists call for awareness of unintended mutations from CRISPR
Scientists have said that researchers need to be more aware of unintended mutations to human embryos following CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.
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Researchers develop new biosynthesis process to create antibiotics
Scientists have discovered that manipulating residues enables precision during the antibiotic biosynthesis assembly line.
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Method to make cell cultures act more like normal cells discovered
Scientists have shown that culturing cells with a modified serum could allow drugs to be screened for toxicity earlier during research.
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New single-cell transcriptomics method does not put cells under stress
Researchers have created a new single-cell transcriptomics approach that cryopreserves cells, limiting the stress they are put under.
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How RNA therapeutics can be used to treat retinitis pigmentosa
Sahm Nasseri discusses promising pre-clinical results of an RNA-based therapeutic developed to treat retinitis pigmentosa type 11.
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New in vitro assay developed to test potential NASH drugs
An assay that combines 3D disease models and automated AI-based fibrosis quantification could accelerate NASH drug discovery.
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Developing a broadly neutralising antibody therapeutic to combat SARS-CoV-2
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, new treatments continue to be urgently needed. One potential solution is antibody therapeutics, which can be used to neutralise the coronavirus and provide future immunity to patients. Here, Dr Laura Walker from Adagio Therapeutics discusses how antibodies can be used in the fight against Severe…
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Product hub: A cost, time and labour-saving protein purification platform
In February 2021, US biotech company GenScript launched an updated version of its semi-automated system, AmMag™ SA Plus.
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Hydrogel used to revert cancer cells back to cancer stem cells
A new hydrogel has been shown to convert cancer cells to cancer stem cells within 24 hours, in six different human cancer cell line types.
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Three common antiviral drugs effective against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
A team has shown that tilorone, quinacrine and pyronaridine are effective at inhibiting the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.
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Organ-on-a-chip model developed to aid sickle cell disease treatment
Researchers have developed a novel organ-on-a-chip model of sickle cell disease to improve personalised medicine.
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Researchers develop model of early human embryo from skin cells
Scientists have created the first model of early human embryos by reprogramming fibroblasts into a blastocyst-like structures.
