Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood pressure and arrhythmia as an anti-anxiety… Read the rest “Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.”
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and other disorders:
… Read the rest “FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.”The agency
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently:
… Read the rest “Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.”Bacteria living
Nature heralds a new, genetic weapon in our arsenal against cancer, be it pancreatic, lung, skin or liver. This is a cancer treatment based on the cancer’s genetic makeup, not what… Read the rest “New cancer drug fights tumors based on its genes, not its location.”
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers:
… Read the rest “America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)”[D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts:
… Read the rest “FDA approves anti-addiction implant”Called Probuphine, the implant
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression:
… Read the rest “Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.”Researchers from Imperial College
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior:
… Read the rest “Prozac is making fish… different.”[Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of
Good news from New Scientist – the so-called superbug has met its germ-killing kryptonite:
… Read the rest “We might have gotten MRSA on the run.”These bacteria are resistant to the most widely used class of antibiotics, called beta-lactams,
The Open Source Gendercodes project is planning to take sex hormones out of the pharmaceutical factory and into the kitchens (and gardens) of any transgendered person who wants to grow … Read the rest “Hormone hacking: home-grown gender control.”
New Scientist doesn’t usually hype the headline too much, so one gets concerned when they say that germs can now resist another “last-resort” antibiotic:
… Read the rest ““Last-resort” antibiotic beaten by resistant bugs globally.”Bacteria
Nature reveals the existence of transgenic chickens, modified to produce drugs in their eggs:
… Read the rest “Chickens that lay medicine are here.”The drug, Kanuma (sebelipase alfa), is a recombinant human enzyme marketed by Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
The New York Times wouldn’t call it “soylent green buffalo,” but I would. Picture, if you would, vats of yeast engineered to give off THC, cannabidiol and other compounds… Read the rest “This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.”
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons:
… Read the rest “Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land”In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, aptly
Nature opens the door to home-brewed heroin – just add water and sugar:
… Read the rest “Engineered yeast grows opiates at home.”A paper published on 18 May in Nature Chemical Biology reports the creation of a yeast strain containing the
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