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News: Natural Products, Natural CompoundsAlga Provides Feasible Mass Production System for Subunit Malaria Vaccine Candidate - An algal system for manufacturing recombinant proteins has provided scientists with the means to generate a malaria-blocking vaccine candidate based on two native unglycosylated Plasmodium falciparum surface proteins, Pfs25 and Pfs28. The University of California, San Diego researchers produced the two P. falciparum proteins in the chloroplasts of the widely used model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, [...]
Toxins found in traditional Chinese medicine - A host of potential toxins, allergens and traces of endangered animals showed up in DNA sequencing tests on 15 Chinese traditional medicines, researchers said on Thursday. Such therapies have been used in China for more than 3,000 years, but have risen in popularity outside Asia in recent decades and now amount to a global industry [...]
Screen uncovers hidden ingredients of Chinese medicine - Genetic audit reveals that some traditional remedies contain endangered animals and toxic plants. Chinese herbal medicines contain ingredients derived from endangered animals, toxic plants and livestock, a genetic audit has discovered. Few of these ingredients were listed on the packaging. “There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products. What they declare is completely [...]
World Leaders in Qigong (“Chi-Kung”) and Traditional Chinese Medicine Set to Gather in Toronto to Discuss the Future of Their Industry for the First Time in History - TORONTO, ONTARIO Grandmaster Stanley Ngui of The Academy for Chi-Kung Studies Canada and Dr. Effie Chow of East West Academy of Healing Arts USA are pleased to announce that the 14th World Congress on Qigong & Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) will take place in Toronto at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, May 25th to 28th, 2012. [...]
Herbal ‘remedy’ may trigger widespread kidney failure - Kidney stones. Snakebites. Head wounds. To the ancients, a weed called birthwort was a wonder drug that treated them all, and more. By Dan Vergano Medical detectives, however, are finding that the ancient remedy likely has caused centuries of kidney failure and cancer, as well as being the culprit in a widespread syndrome of kidney [...]
Southeast Asian TCM brand Eu Yan Sang Speeds up Expansion in China - Eu Yan Sang International, an established traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) brand that started in Southeast Asia, is speeding up its expansion on the Chinese mainland after three years of efforts to get sufficient of its health food and other health products registered, said Richard Eu, chief executive officer of the company. by Xinhua Chen Jipeng [...]
A New Herbal Formula has Been Invented to Treat Chronic Prostatitis - State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) has recently published a patent of herbal formula for treating prostatitis. New herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill invented by Chinese herbalist Li Xiaoping proven to be extremely effective against chronic prostatitis. State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C (SIPO) has recently published a patent of herbal [...]
Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine may help women with chronic pelvic pain - Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine may have a role to play in the treatment of health problems linked to chronic pelvic pain (CPP), say experts from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in a new opinion paper published today. Professor George Lewith, from the Complementary and Integrated Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, [...]
Natural compounds derived from plants could yield hundreds of new drugs - NYBG scientist says the plant world has “great potential” as a source of new medicines There are probably at least 500 medically useful chemicals awaiting discovery in plant species whose chemical constituents have not yet been evaluated for their potential to cure or treat disease, according to a new analysis by a New York Botanical [...]
Ancient Chinese cures translate into modern Western medicines - The Chem-TCM is the most comprehensive database of its kind and translates more than 12,000 chemicals from more than 300 Chinese herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into Western terminology. “Future researchers will now be able to better understand the chemical basis of remedies that have been in use for thousands of years,” says [...]
BioFocus to Offer IMD’s Natural Product Libraries through Drug Discovery Services - BioFocus and InterMed Discovery (IMD) inked a marketing collaboration that will allow BioFocus to offer IMD’s natural product screening libraries through its drug discovery services. IMD will in addition provide follow-on services to BioFocus. “We have been impressed with the scale of IMD’s natural product discovery capabilities, and we believe that when InterMed’s natural product [...]
Iona Chemistry Professor Researches Cure For ALZ - New Rochelle, NY – Do curry spice, wine and apple skins hold the answer for finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders? The results of a laboratory research project, recently published in the Journal of Neurochemistry, show that a chemical compound derived from these natural products may be used in [...]
Pomegranate ‘can combat MRSA and other superbugs’ - Scientists have discovered the power of fruit as a potential new weapon in the fight against MRSA and other hospital superbugs. A team from the University of Kingston, in Surrey, have shown that pomegranate can be used to create an ointment with the power to tackle the drug-resistant infections. In a series of tests conducted [...]
Astellas and REGiMMUNE to Collaborate on New Vaccine Technology - TOKYO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire – July 22, 2009) – REGiMMUNE Corporation today announced that Astellas Pharma Inc. and REGiMMUNE have entered into a collaboration agreement to jointly research and develop a novel vaccine-platform technology. The partnership will combine Astellas’ broad range of capabilities in screening and developing natural source-derived compounds with REGiMMUNE’s immune liposome [...]
Drug Discovery Latin America, February 26-27, 2009 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The inaugural Drug Discovery Latin America conference and exhibition will be held in the colourful city of Rio de Janeiro in the days immediately following the world famous carnival. The purpose of this meeting is to review the status of drug discovery activities in Latin America and to assist its future development. Business and research [...]
TimTec and Collaborative Drug Discovery Team Up to Provide Chemically Searchable Natural Products and Derivatives Available to the Scientific Community - TimTec LLC., the international distributor of synthetic organic and natural compounds, and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. (CDD), the community based research information management enterprise, announced today that the CDD web-based software now hosts TimTec’s Natural Product Library and Natural Derivatives Library. The TimTec natural product and derivative compounds are now available as a structure searchable [...]
Direct Screening of Natural Products Extracts Using Mass Spectrometry - Present advances in screening and separation technologies reveal extracts bioactivity with great efficiency and accuracy. Recently reported method of Direct Screening of Natural Products Extracts Using Mass Spectrometry does not require any preparation or fractionation work. Several hundred crude extracts can be screened per one day. Direct bioaffinity screening mass spectrometry method followed by the [...]
Mumie – Description and Origin - Though Mumie has been used in folk medicine of different countries for almost two thousand years, there are still many legends regarding its mysterious origin. In Russia serious research has been conducted on Mumie since 1910. This research became even more intense during the past twenty years Government financing supported research that was conducted at [...]
Gossypol Biological Properties - Gossypol: is a polyphenolic aldehyde that permeates cells and acts as an inhibitor for several dehydrogenase enzymes. is antimalarial being the selective inhibitor of Plasmodium falciparum (pfLDH over hLDHs), an essential enzyme for energy generation within malarial parasite. posesses proapoptotic properties, probably due to the regulation of the Bax and Bcl2. reversibly inhibits Calcineurin and [...]
MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd Announces The Completion Of Merger With Combinature Biopharm AG And Athelas SA; Closure Of US $30 Million Financing Round - MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd (MerLion) of Singapore, the world’s leading natural products based drug discovery company, announces that it has completed a merger by exchange of shares with Combinature Biopharm AG (Berlin, Germany) and Athelas SA (Geneva, Switzerland). SINGAPORE, Singapore | Aug 21, 2006 | MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd (MerLion) of Singapore, the world’s leading [...]
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