Gold Nanoprticles in Diagnosis of Infuenza (Flu) Virus
It's well known that Viruses can be captured by specific antibodies. Nano-particles owing to their size and constitution show peculiar properties in contrast…
Author: Dr RC Mishra
Recent Advances in Anti HBV Drug Discovery
The review article titled "Discovery and Development of Anti-HBV Agents and Their Resistance" is open access and can be downloaded by clicking the link…
Carbocyclic Nucleosides in Antiviral and Anticancer Chemotherapy
[warning]In the last decade, a number of carbocyclic nucleoside analogs have been reported to posses interesting anti viral and anti cancer properties. We…
Anticancer targets amenable by nucleoside drugs
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via Wikipedia[/caption] Anticancer chemotherapy using targets amenable by nucleoside drugs: There are some recently discovered targets where compounds…
HiStory of Carbocyclic Nucleosides
Carbocyclic Nucleosides is the name given to the class of molecules which are very similar to Nucleosides despite the fact that their furanose…
Influenza Viruses
Image via Wikipedia Influenza viruses are a group of RNA viruses from Orthomyxoviridae family. These are 3 in number namely: Influenzavirus A, Influenzavirus…
Indian Patent Office Clears Nexavar/Sorafenib for Generic Licensing
The compound with the structure below is a Bayer' patented anticancer drug for renal and liver cancer, marketed as Nexavar.