Apr

19

Dental Mercury Amalgam Fillings: No Harm Found

April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Mercury fillings OK for kids? ‘ Dental fillings containing mercury do not cause any measurable neurological problems in children who have had the fillings for at least seven years, according to two studies reported in Wednesday’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The studies are the first to compare children receiving mercury [...]

Apr

19

Nanoparticles Combat Cancer

April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Nanoparticles Annihilate Prostate Cancer. ‘Fighting cancer is currently a messy war. Modern chemotherapies attack tumors with the equivalent of a machinegun approach: cover the area widely with deadly fire and hope to destroy the tumor with a minimum of collateral damage. Doctors have long sought a way to precisely target tumors with their chemical therapies. [...]

Apr

16

Cancer: Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)

April 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Light activated anticancer drug targeted to DNA using cisplatin like sub-units: Coupling light absorbers to reactive metal centers. ‘One of the most effective chemotherapy drugs against cancer is cisplatin because it attaches to cancer DNA and disrupts repair. However, it also kills healthy tissue. Many scientists are creating alternative drugs or cisplatin analogs in attempts [...]

Apr

16

Potassium Channel Failure

April 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Unraveling the mysteries of poison. ‘Researchers from the Max Planck Institite for Biophysical Chemistry and other German and French colleagues have combined magnetic resonance spectroscopy (solid-state NMR) with special protein synthesis procedures to uncover how potassium channels and toxins combine and change in structure. This work could make it possible to develop medications for high [...]

Apr

14

D2OL Community Helps to Fight Avian Flu

April 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment

First Computational International Effort to Fight Avian Flu: The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases (TRI), a non-profit research institute devoted to discovering and developing drugs to treat childhood diseases, today announced the release of the first avian influenza target to its Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL) distributed computing project. Anyone with a personal computer [...]

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