SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 5 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Biochemists establish new method for identifying pharmaceutical candidates faster * Key takeaways * Researchers at UC Santa Cruz developed a faster way to screen enzyme variants, helping scientists identify promising drug-making molecules much earlier and easing a major bottleneck in biocatalysis that has slowed pharmaceutical discovery for decades. * The new method enhance  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 6 (TNSjou) -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news: * * * New approach to HIV treatment offers hope to reduce daily drug needs Enhanced immune cells show promise in targeting viral reservoirs that current medications can't eliminate Story by: Patty Zamora More than 30 million people with HIV must take antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications daily to keep the virus under control, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).  more

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 4 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center posted the following news release: * * * Experimental pill dramatically reduces 'bad' cholesterol * DALLAS - Feb. 04, 2026 - An experimental pill called enlicitide slashed levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, commonly known as "bad" cholesterol, by up to 60%, a new phase three clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed. If approved by the Food and Drug Administration, this  more

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 5 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center posted the following news release: * * * Study identifies why some breast cancers evade treatment * DALLAS - Feb. 05, 2026 - Up to 20% of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers don't respond to antiestrogen therapies. A study led by researchers at UT Southwestern, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that a protein secreted by immune cells within these tumors causes them to grow even in the  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: * * * University of Houston Study Offers Potential New Targets to Identify, Remediate Dyslexia Report: Reading Difficulty Is a Developmental Process By Laurie Fickman, 713/743-8454, lafickma@Central.UH.EDU A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems from a single faulty gene in the brain, suggesting instead that it is caused by  more