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Obesity drugs gain weight in labs: Several clinical trials by big and small pharma cos underwayDriven by the success of Wegovy and Mounjaro, numerous pharma companies are developing anti-obesity drugs, with over 170 in various stages....
Eli Lilly working on a heart drug that may benefit Indians: CEO David RicksEli Lilly is developing a groundbreaking drug, lepodisiran, to combat high LPA cholesterol levels prevalent in South Asians, potentially re...
Gene therapy can be the answer to brain disorders: StudyScientists are hopeful that disorders like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc. will be treatable in the future.
A database of 200 million-plus protein shapes is hypercharging biomedical researchSo far, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to find out the shape of proteins. This is expensive and time-consuming. Of course...
Inside IISc Bangalore's Incubation LabIndian Institute of Science Bangalore's (IISc Bangalore) Society for Innovation and Development has turned into a hub of deep science start...
Single dose of Sputnik V Covid vaccine triggers strong antibody response: StudyThe new study, published on Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, examined whether a single dose would achieve greater public healt...
Organ transplant recipients vulnerable to COVID-19 even after vaccination: StudyThe researchers found that only 98 of the 658 study participants -- 15 per cent -- had detectable antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 at 21 days after...
Repurposed anti-protozoal drug emetine effective against Covid: Indian scientistsScientists at National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures have a unique collection of over 100 small molecule chemical inhibitors that are...
We can stop COVID-19: Moderna vaccine success gives world more hopeTogether with Pfizer Inc's vaccine, also shown to be more than 90% effective, and pending more safety data and regulatory review, the Unite...
Scientists identify potential drug candidate that can prevent coronavirusThe study, published in the journal Science Advances, assessed the molecule main protease, Mpro, of the novel coronavirus which is a key en...
Scientists find a pre-existing drug, used to treat bipolar disorder, effective against coronavirusThe scientists rapidly screened thousands of existing compounds for potential use.
UK researchers developing natural alternative to pesticides- Lab breakthrough opens way to cure for cold sores
Cold sores, the painful blemishes of the mouth caused by the herpes simplex virus, may become a thing of the past, US researchers reported ...
- India, France to co-operate on basic medical research
India and France have joined hands to explore the possibilities of RNAi (RNA interference) in areas of basic medical research and biotechno...
- Merck to acquire biotech co Sirna for $1.1bn all cash
Pharmaceutical company Merck said it agreed to pay an eye-popping $1.1bn to buy Sirna Therapeutics, a tiny biotechnology firm developing dr...
- Indian team was close to Nobel in medicine
An Indian researcher at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad believes that he and members of his former group ...
- US doctors win medicine Nobel
Americans Andrew Z Fire and Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a method of turning off sele...