It is the synergy of these compounds that can enhance the identified active ingredients.
Happily, Scotland has the expertise to be able to read what these compounds can tell us.
Some of these compounds have already been phased out, but many still have important uses in industry.
These compounds are used to treat osteoporosis and are the mainstay for the treatment of this disease.
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These compounds would do less damage to the body than current medicines and would sail through clinical trials.
In animal tests these compounds restore some walking ability to the partly paralyzed.
Dr Kanatzidis's group is developing new ways of making these compounds crystallise correctly.
"Some of these compounds are dangerous, some of them are lethal, whether to human health, to the environment, " he added.
Even Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) may have a few of these compounds in development.
Dr Crandall hopes these compounds may eventually be used to treat not only malaria, but some types of cancer as well.
My goal is to have at least one of these compounds save the lives of some of the people affected by HCM.
Perhaps these compounds will finally prove or disprove the beta amyloid hypothesis.
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Inspectors will look for the presence or misuse of these compounds only.
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Rather than letting some of these assets sit idly, it has found willing partners in Puma Biotechnology and VLST to advance these compounds.
It is not yet clear how these compounds compare with Arimidex.
They believe that simple modifications, such as curing below 60C, could reduce the production of these compounds, and thus reduce the risk of triggering anaphylactic shock.
If AstraZeneca is right, then all of the EGF drugs could see their market severely limited until doctors and drugmakers learn to use these compounds in chemotherapy.
Unlike traditional antibiotics, which must get through the cell walls or membranes of the germs, these compounds poke holes in the outside of the bacteria, killing them.
These compounds, which help reduce the risk of heart disease, are typically derived from fish, and so taste unpleasant to some and carry the risk of increased mercury consumption.
"I am convinced, given our size, that these compounds offer the potential to generate greater upside leverage for Schering-Plough than exists at any other 'big pharma' company, " Kogan said.
But the bigger challenge for many of these compounds is that, despite being in the midst of major phase 3 trials, it is not at all clear that they work.
Now, you and I appreciate the hard work that has gone into the discovery of these compounds and the hopes that PhRMA companies have that these compounds will become important medicines.
If any of these compounds emerge as an effective drug and all could falter later in larger human trials it could let patients slow the progression of their disease for months and possibly years.
The problem, says Dr Ramsey, who analyses drug "amnesty bins", "is it takes a long while to control each of these compounds and as soon as you control one, another set appears".
Other members of my laboratory will use techniques such as force spectroscopy and single-molecule assays to further investigate the compounds that I screen, providing a more complete picture of the actions of these compounds.
One of these compounds may have helped 8-year-old Tanner Rico regain the ability to put on his clothes by himself, brush his teeth and climb in and out of his family's car, says his mother Traci Rico.
These compounds, by virtue of their mode of action, were deemed to be as potent arthritis pain relievers as traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen, but were believed to be safer than NSAIDs since they caused less gastrointestinal distress.
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