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Improving the Water Solubility of CBD for Cancer Treatment

CBD exhibits various useful anti-cancer properties but its poor water solubility has been a limiting factor in moving this treatment option forward.

14 Feb 2020

CBD Quality Control Measures

CBD products must undergo various quality control measures to ensure their safety and efficacy for consumers.

14 Feb 2020

Ionic Fluids for Microextraction in Forensic Toxicology

This article covers the ionic fluids used to prepare complex forensic samples for analysis - to accurately quantify the concentration of trace analytes.

14 Feb 2020

Understanding Lead Optimization

The main goal of lead optimization is to maintain the desired properties of a prospective drug’s main components, while reducing any structural defects.

14 Feb 2020

Hit to Lead (H2L) Process in Drug Discovery

The hit to lead stage of drug discovery aims to discover compounds of interest from a selection of compounds that demonstrate promising therapeutic effects.

14 Feb 2020

Pharmacokinetics of Cannabis and its Secondary Metabolites

Once Cannabis enters the body, it undergoes a variety of different biological pathways that allow for its therapeutic effects to arise.

14 Feb 2020

Environmental Metabolomics

Environmental metabolomics helps to study the impact on organisms when exposed to environmental stress such as pollution, changes in climate and infection.

14 Feb 2020

Advances in Fluorescence Microscopy

In fluorescence microscopy, a specimen emits energy when activated by light of a certain wavelength. Some substances such as chlorophyll and some minerals will do this naturally, while others will need the help of other chemical triggers.

14 Feb 2020

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

A Coulter Counter is an instrument that can count and size the cells in an electrolyte to provide valuable information for researchers.

14 Feb 2020

T Cell Development

T cells are a type of lymphocyte, or white blood cell, that involved in the adaptive immune response and develop in response to stimuli in the thymus.

14 Feb 2020

Microbes in Raw Meat

Contamination of food by microbes is a public health concern around the world. This article investigates the levels of microbes found in raw meat.

14 Feb 2020

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

A ribosome is the cellular machine that produces protein. It has two primary functional units, or subunits, known as the large subunit and the small subunit. Eukaryotic ribosomes are referred to as 80S ribosomes.

14 Feb 2020

Gene Knockout Method

The methods used to carry out gene knockout are mutation, RNAi gene silencing, conditional knockout using Cre recombinase and gene editing using CRISPR.

14 Feb 2020

What are Regulatory T Cells?

T regulatory cells (Tregs) are a type of immune cell that suppresses potentially harmful actions of autoreactive T helper cells.

14 Feb 2020

Applications of Conditional Gene Knockout Technology

This article describes the process of conditional gene knockout technology, including Cre-LoxP and CRISPR-Cas9, and its applications in research.

14 Feb 2020

Health Applications of Lab-on-a-Chip

Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technology has seen spectacular growth over the years. The potential uses for LOC in medicine and health applications are unlimited.

28 Feb 2020