Modern Technology & Mother Nature For thousands of years, nature has been the best medicine cabinet around. Natural products are drugs derived from nature, typically plants or microbes, and have been especially useful in fighting cancer and infectious disease....
Drug Discovery Via Natural Products Half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Satoshi Omura and William C. Campbell for their work leading to the discovery of the drug avermectin, used in the treatment of parasitic diseases. The other half went to Youyou Tu for...
Basics of Blood Disorders Blood is the carrier of a multitude of fundamental body processes—responsible for delivering vital nutrients/oxygen and for removing wastes. Like the highway exchange feeding a city of life, blood is simply essential. The branch...
With the recent announcement of two new biologics in Phase I studies for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), WEEKLY takes a closer look at the treatments for this autosomal recessive disease, afflicting approximately 100,000 Americans and 25 million globally. Sickle cell...
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