There is much interest in the medical uses of nucleic acids. For example, antisense, ribozymes, aptamer and RNA interference (RNAi) technolo...

With the increasing diabetic patients the requirement of insulin is also increasing. As we are aware that most insulin products a...

We have seen many applications of liquid crystals, but now something interesting like "X-ray light valve" (a term coined by Dr.J...

α-Difluoromethylornithine or DFMO, which was developed as a cancer therapy and later shelved because of toxicity concerns, has been around s...

The Ebola virus can cause hemorrhagic fever that is usually fatal. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, o...

Alcohols were never synthesized beyond five carbons. Now, J ames Liao, UCLA professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and hi...

TB bacteria actually sends signals that encourage the growth of those organized granuloma structures, and for good reason: each granuloma se...

A carbohydrate-containing antigen, termed Pk blood group which is distinct from the well-known ABO and Rh blood grouping system...

Clioquinol (5-Chloro-7-iodo-8-hydroxyquinoline), an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders - can...

Olanzapine (2-methyl-4-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-10H-thieno[2,3-b][1,5]benzodiazepine) is one of the most commonly used drugs for atypical an...

Though there are many tests for drugs (performance enhancers) for the sportpersons, they will try to use the drugs (wherein there ar...

Dr. Ghosh lab , has determined the structures of all three of the enzymes (aromatase, sulfatase and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydr...

Wish you all, A happy, prosperous and peaceful New Year-2009 .

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 to Osamu Shimomura (USA), Martin Chalfie (USA) and Roger Y. Tsien (USA) for the " discovery an...

MicroRNAs are small scraps of RNA comprising around 20 nucleotides and it is only recently that scientists have discovered their powe...