Gorilla Staple Adds Spice to New Drugs
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A clear vial filled with amber fluid rests on scientist Ilya Raskin's desk, glinting in the autumn sunlight streaming through his office window. The container, a small glass bottle with a plain white screw-top, contains a substance Raskin calls 006. "Double-zero-six" is...
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Scientists develop a synthetic version of a herb-based drug to treat malaria.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvard researchers unveiled a surprisingly longer list, an important first step in the hunt for new drugs.
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Scientists say they have a promising new lead in the quest to develop a vaginal gel that women could apply before sexual intercourse to block the AIDS virus.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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An ambitious drug-research project in Madagascar aims to tap the botanical knowledge of traditional healers while helping to protect the country's rain forests.
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A new treatment for the age-old scourge of cholera and perhaps a whole new type of antibiotic medicine may emerge from chemicals discovered in an Australian seaweed, new research results suggest.
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LONDON -- The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.
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Here's what a newly approved drug looks like.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A novel colon cancer-fighting drug developed by Genentech Inc. already on its way to blockbuster status got an additional boost Monday when the company announced Avastin helped some of the
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A  discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
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The former will take over development of the latter's drug.
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A top compound in development could become an important MS treatment.
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Two drug-manufacturing firms this week launched a collaboration to develop the first single-dose daily combination antiretroviral drug to treat HIV-positive people.
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An experimental HIV drug in a new class  called integrase inhibitors helps control the virus well  combined with other drugs commonly used in AIDS cocktails, its  maker Merck and Co.  reported on Saturday.
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UC Berkeley researchers will use the bark of an indigenous Samoan tree to try to clone the gene for a promising anti-AIDS drug in hopes of protecting rain forests and making the drug widely available, according to a deal announced Thursday.