Researchers exposed 6,000 strains of yeast to 3,000 drugs and found that the yeast cells have about 50 main ways in which they react to any drug. Skip to main content Your source for the latest ...

Scientists are working to find effective COVID-19 treatments but caution not to self-medicate or hoard drugs like chloroqhine as possible candidates.

The 175th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association featured a session on how cultural and ethnic differences could affect reponses to drugs. To the scientist, the process of the ...

The factors affecting drug metabolism. ... Body size also affects drug response. Drug concentration in the body is determined by both the dose given and the volume of an individual's body fluids.

The use of genome-wide association (GWA) approaches to identify variants that affect drug response or reaction is increasing rapidly, with at least 12 studies appearing in 2009 alone. This article ...

The Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics research groups at the Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program (INDIVIDRUG), University of Helsinki, work to identify key factors affecting drug ...

Other factors affecting drug metabolism. ... Body size also affects drug response. Drug concentration in the body is determined by both the dose given and the volume of an individual’s body fluids.

The information about how DNA sequence varies across the human genome is crucial for unravelling the genetic basis of drug response. A haplotype map, or HapMap, intended to reveal such a variation ...

Among melanoma patients treated with anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, consumption of a high-fiber diet was associated with higher gut microbiome diversity and better response to treatment, according to ...

In findings published in Nature Biotechnology, Roche scientists have presented a method for analyzing the metabolism of a commonly prescribed drug. Use of this mouse genetic analysis method may lead ...

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genetic attributes affect drug response. ... their drug sensitivity profiles which was associated with prognosis even after accounting for known risk factors.

Could diet affect whether cancer patients respond to potentially life-saving immunotherapy drugs? A new study suggests that fiber intake may be a positive influence, whereas probiotics may have ...