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Academic Drug Discovery: Repurposing to treat disease
As the cost of drug design and development continues to escalate, repurposing drugs offers faster and cheaper ways of treating disease.
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Replacing Opioids: Developing drugs to treat pain
In America, in 2014, more than 28,000 people died from opioid overdose, and at least half of these deaths involved prescription opioids. This article highlights the research going into alternative pain medications.
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CRISPR: Emerging applications for genome editing technology
CRISPR gene editing is the ultimate toolbox for genetic manipulation with a whole host of potential applications.
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Regulatory T Cells Directly Promote Remyelination
Research implicates CCN3 as the key molecule in the mechanism by which regulatory T cells induce remyelination.
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Painkillers Not Effective with Lack of Sleep
Coffee is more effective than painkillers at treating pain hypersensitivity caused by lack of sleep.
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Zika Virus Persists in Brain and Lymph Tissue for up to 72 Days
Study using Rhesus monkeys describes how the Zika virus can hide from the body's immune system in brain and lymph tissue for up 72 days. And also describes the possible mechanism by which Zika causes microcephaly in gestating babies.
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Escape Behavior is not a Reflex But A learned Goal-Directed Set of Actions
Tiago Branco's group at UCL investigate flight behavior and show that movement away from danger is a complex, goal-directed behavior, not a reflex.
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Outsourced Ion Channel Testing Trends
The article describes the global trends in outsourcing of ion channel testing, discussing the results of a large survey of research labs from pharma, biotech and academia.
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Shining a Light on the Future of Electrophysiology
Optical reporters of cellular excitability are emerging technologies that could potentially replace electrophysiology. This article discusses the future of the technique in academia and drug discovery environments.
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Astrocytes Set the Pace of Our Body Clocks
Researchers at the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology have identified a brain microcircuit involving astrocytes which regulates the 24-hour sleep/wake cycle of the bo
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