UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS Two commonly used psychiatric drugs show evidence of improving symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease including boosting cognition, according to a study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “The people who received these drugs developed better cognition and actually improved in their clinical diagnosis,” said the study’s senior...
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Repurposing FDA-approved drugs may help combat COVID-19
by Pennsylvania State University Creative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 particles (not to scale). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Several FDA-approved drugs—including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV—significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in human cells, according to new research led by scientists at Penn...
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Scientists profile FDA-approved drugs to potentially treat hundreds of genetic disorders
by Iqbal Pittalwala, University of California – Riverside Credit: Myriam Zilles on Unsplash. Nonsense-mediated RNA decay, or NMD, is an evolutionarily conserved molecular mechanism in which potentially defective messenger RNAs, or mRNAs, are degraded. By reducing errors in gene expression, it serves as an RNA quality control and gene regulatory mechanism. Its disruption can lead to neurological...