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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

What is Proteomics?

Proteomics is a field of molecular biology that is concerned with the systematic, high-throughput approach to protein expression analysis.

14 Feb 2020

What is Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD)?

NAD is the coenzyme form of vitamin B3 and is known to play a role in DNA repair, signal transduction and post-translational modifications.

14 Feb 2020

How CRISPR is Revolutionizing Biomedical Research

CRISPR/Cas9 represents an example of an adaptive immune system that makes bacteria and archaea resistant to exogenous viruses or plasmids.

14 Feb 2020

What is Epigenomics?

Epigenomics is the study of the epigenome, which is a multitude of chemical compounds that direct the functioning genome as a whole.

14 Feb 2020

What is Metabolomics?

Metabolomics is a field of research that focuses on the chemical processes undergone by metabolites.

14 Feb 2020

Stem Cell Controversy

There are several ethical issues that are raised while working with stem cells. This article addresses the various issues caused by stem cell research.

14 Feb 2020

What is Genomics?

Genomics is an area within genetics that concerns the sequencing and analysis of an organism’s genome.

14 Feb 2020

Stem Cell Properties

Stem cells are different from other cells in the body. There are three unique properties of all stem cells regardless of their source.

14 Feb 2020

What are Oncogenes?

Several different systems have been devised to classify oncogenes. Some of the different categories of oncogenes include:

14 Feb 2020

Hot Melt Extrusion in the Pharmaceutical and Food Industries

Hot melt extrusion is a manufacturing technique that originated in the plastics and food industries but is now being used in the pharmaceutical industry.

14 Feb 2020

Insulin Signaling Pathway

This article describes the insulin signaling pathway, its physiological effects and the methods by which insulin signaling is regulated.

14 Feb 2020

What is 3D X-Ray Microscopy?

3D X-ray microscopy is a non-destructive imaging technique that provides 3D visualization of internal microstructures in biological samples at sub-micron to nanoscale spatial resolution.

14 Feb 2020