Drug discovery and molecular mechanisms of drug action
Many people start taking a long-term prescription medicine sometime during adulthood. A particularly common one is medication for treating high blood pressure, which many people start taking as early as their 30s. As people get older, often more medical problems arise with more specialist doctors seeing the patient and adding more medications to treat the … Read more
Eosinophilic esophagitis (referred to as EoE) involves an atypical allergic response to food in the esophagus. In some patients, the response can be triggered by simply the smell of the problematic food. The cells involved are not part of the adaptive immune system and do not react to self antigens. Thus, it is not an … Read more
As I was selecting the articles related to proteomics and disease, I kept a running list of those that piqued my interest. These range in topic and are not all related to proteomics. Most are related to medicine or human disease. Hopefully, I will have time to take a closer look at them all and … Read more
The following papers piqued my interest this week. Hopefully, I will have time to take a closer look at them all and decide which ones warrant a thumbs up and which ones a thumbs down. Some I found through my Biomed News search of the proteomics and disease list, some through social media, and some … Read more