Mayo also believes that certain drug-like compounds can speed-up the destruction of the damaging proteins.
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Following the earthquake of 1985, many of the city's wealthiest fled the center for fortress-like compounds in outlying areas.
These include not just petroleum but also methane hydrates, white, sorbet-like compounds that exist in profusion under the sea, perhaps containing more energy in total than all known deposits of fossil fuels.
The flaring of natural gas, which often accompanies oil production, produces an array of air pollutants, and leaks and spills release toxins ranging from volatile chemicals, like benzene (a known carcinogen), to much heavier compounds, like benzopyrene (another known carcinogen).
It suggests using a ferromagnetic ink, which includes compounds like iron or iron oxide, for the tattoo.
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It began licensing compounds like pagoclone and trospium, which is licensed from Europe's Madaus AG , in the hopes that one of them would make it through the FDA's goalposts.
Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) is suing both drugmakers, saying that its patents for Viagra also cover screens to make similar compounds like Levitra and Cialis.
UTC's solution: Pass the return air through an aluminum filter sprayed with titanium dioxide that, hit with ultraviolet rays, sets off a chemical reaction that breaks down nasty organic compounds like benzene and formaldehyde into carbon dioxide and water.
Nitrogen compounds, like urea, a big component of urine, are transformed over several steps.
Use paints free of volatile organic compounds, like those from Yolo Colorhouse, a Portland, Ore.
To make sure the few drug conjugates that reached their prey would destroy them, other researchers like Ravi Chari looked for compounds that were far more potent than standard therapies.
Ultimately, cardiologists hope to create a powerful new triple-threat cocktail combining today's statin drugs for lowering bad cholesterol (like Lipitor) with new compounds to boost good cholesterol and other drugs that would directly reduce vessel-wall inflammation.
Like chemical skeleton keys, these generic compounds can quickly be customized to gum up specific kinases as their roles in disease become clearer.
Metals, platinum-group elements, rare earth elements, and other volatiles, like H, H2O, and carbon compounds, are abundant on asteroids, many of which are relatively accessible from Earth.
Third, the FDA and other regulatory bodies are going to use all means possible to get drug companies to run outcome studies like HPS2-THRIVE to learn about compounds both old and new.
Some have eco-friendly attributes, like wood with low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as formaldehyde, which is classified as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
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The very act of isolating sequences of molecules from the much larger DNA molecule transforms them into something useful, the judge said, just like any other industrial process based on naturally occurring compounds.
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Given the amount of work involved in actually isolating genes from the much larger DNA molecule transforms them into something useful, the majority said, just like any other industrial process based on naturally occurring compounds.
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The latter include health-damaging and smog-forming airborne pollutants like hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, as well as greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and other compounds.
Much of the damage looks like the result of oxidation by free radicals (oxygen-rich compounds released during cellular energy production).
Most research chemists are like generals playing molecular trench warfare, firing out thousands of new compounds in a grueling advance toward the elusive billion-dollar molecule.
And the mathematics actually work, surprisingly, because the 3% up a year compounds to not 15%, but 17% or something like that.
The Scripps Research Institute team had already boosted the number of cells created with two compounds initiating a naturally occurring process that moves the cell nearer to a stem-cell like state.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing laboratory compounds into new drugs.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing lab compounds into new drugs.
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