LAB SMASH: A game for researchers to vent out their anger and frustration

Frustrated that your experiment has failed? Angry that you had to waste your weekend on a failed case? Now, no need to break your real flask or beaker. Just log on to Facebook and play Lab Smash!! Relieve yourself!! As a researcher myself, i feel angry if one or the other reaction fails. While separating stereoisomers through the strenuous...

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Lets make a difference on World Malaria Day by signing the JUMA petition

Who is Juma? Juma is a 5 year old boy who daily goes to school and aspires to become a great person one day.  One day, he wakes up amidst high fever. His mother immediately takes him to a doctor and he is diagnosed with malaria. Juma's mother buys the tablets at a local shop. Tablets that cost her the little money she earned in the...

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#RIP Bardoxolone: Another Potential Megablockbuster Drug Fails!!

Another Potential Blockbuster Drug namely Bardoxolone ( refer this article published earlier: http://www.pharmablockbusters.info/2011/12/bardoxolone-potential-mega-blockbuster.html ) felt the axe as it failed to clear the Ph III Clinical trials due to concerns about death and "excess serious adverse events" in patients taking the first-in-class antioxidant...

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The 3rd INDO-GERMAN Conference on Modelling Chemical and Biological (Re) Activity @ NIPER, Mohali

The 3rd Indo-German Conference on Modelling Chemical and biological (Re) Activity will be held at NIPER, S.A.S.Nagar from 26th Feb to 1st March, 2013. The 3rd edition of this conference is being held jointly by NIPER, S.A.S.Nagar and IISER, Mohali, the previous two being at Hyderabad in 2007 and Wildbad Kreuth, Germany in 2009. The Symposium...

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Breakthrough Research: Cure for Morphine Addiction found!!

In a major breakthrough by a group of Australian scientists, a cure has been found for morphine and heroin addiction which will prove a boon for more than 12 million drug addicts worldwide.(1) Scientists at the University of Adelaide have identified an immune receptor TLR-4 which is responsible for the drug addiction, and found a way to block this...

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Public Domain Databases for Medicinal Chemistry

Here's a useful overview of the public-domain medicinal chemistry databases out there.  BindingDB (quantitative binding data to protein targets).ChEMBL (wide range of med-chem data, overlaps a bit with PubChem).PubChem (data from NIH Roadmap screen and many others). PDB (repository for the 3-D structural...

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Naming the Antibiotics: Some Intriguing Facts

An entertaining and brief but fully documented review of the methods by which discoverers of antibiotics have chosen names for them is given by D. Perlman of the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin.  Antibiotics named after Organisms:  Some of the best known, and a total of about 500, have names derived from...

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Vaccine for Brain Tumor: A New Height in Personalized Medicine

Developing a Vaccine produced from a patient's one's own tissues has definitely taken Pharmacogenomics-popularly known as "Personalized medicine" to a new height in the present scenario. The concept of Pharmacogenomics deals with the genetic variation among the masses, and using the genetic data to select the right drugs to treat disease...

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Free SciFinder access For Unemployed

Are you currently unemployed and wish you still had access to SciFinder to help you find new employment or to stay current in your research area? If you had access to SciFinder and lost your job this year, CAS now offers complimentary SciFinder access under a special program for free.  Apply Here SciFinder is a research discovery tool...

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International Symposium on Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics @NIPER, Mohali

NIPER S.A.S. and Bristol-Myers Squibb is organizing 4th International Symposium on  Drug Metabolism  & Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) , at NIPER S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), Punjab, India. This conference will be useful for scientific community working in the field of Drug Metabolism  & Pharmacokinetics. Objectives of the Symposium Provide...

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