Diabetes and Weight Loss Wonder-Drug Semaglutide May Have an Incredible New Use
Recent research indicates that semaglutide, a drug used for diabetes and weight loss, could effectively reduce symptoms of Alcohol Use Disorder. This finding, based on…
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A New Dawn for Alzheimer’s: Phase I Trial Targets Senescent Cells Safely
Wake Forest University researchers are exploring cellular senescence’s role in Alzheimer’s disease. By using a repurposed cancer drug and an antioxidant, initial tests show potential…
Shattering Old Beliefs: Antipsychotic Drugs Work Differently Than Scientists Thought
New research finding about how drugs modulate the brain in schizophrenia could lead to better treatments. Antipsychotic drugs used to treat the millions of people…
Donanemab: The Breakthrough Drug Ushering a New Era in Alzheimer’s Treatment
The FDA is anticipated to approve a third Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, signaling progress in slowing the disease. The drug showed a 35% slowdown in cognitive…
Outsmarting Cystinosis: AI-Led Discovery Brings Hope for Patients With Lyosomal Storage Disease
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in drug discovery. Advances in the use of Big Data, learning algorithms and powerful computers have now enabled researchers…
MIT’s AI Learns Molecular Language for Rapid Material Development and Drug Discovery
This AI system only needs a small amount of data to predict molecular properties, which could speed up drug discovery and material development. Discovering new…
MIT’s AI and Laser Duo Is Shaking Up How We Make Medicine
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders. A team…
Accelerating Drug Discovery With the AI Behind ChatGPT – Screening 100 Million Compounds a Day
By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds. Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold…
Productivity Paradox: “Smart” Drugs Like Ritalin Can Lead to Erratic Thinking in People Who Don’t Have ADHD
Smart drugs do motivate people, but the added effort can lead to “erratic thinking,” adversely affecting above-average performers, according to researchers. New research from the…
New Way To Develop Drugs Without Side Effects – To Treat Obesity, Pain, Osteoporosis, and Neurological Disorders
Researchers discovered a novel method to activate G-protein coupled receptors from inside the cells, and it helps develop drugs without side effects. The team identified…
New Technology Could Make Missing Important Doses of Medicines and Vaccines a Thing of the Past
The technology developed by Rice Lab has the potential to provide time-released drugs and vaccines for months. The issue of missing essential doses of medicine…
Sweaty Secret to Serenity: Unlocking Social Anxiety Relief Through Body Odor
European researchers found that human sweat odors may boost mental health treatment, particularly for social anxiety. Patients exposed to these odors during mindfulness therapy showed…
Alzheimer’s Breakthrough? Common Sleeping Pill Reduces Levels of Disease Proteins
More research needed to determine if sleep medications prevent, delay Alzheimer’s. A small study suggests that the insomnia medication suvorexant could potentially reduce Alzheimer’s proteins…
Fighting the Next Pandemic: Algorithmic Tool Identifies Existing Drugs To Battle Future Outbreaks
Algorithm calculates how to effectively “repurpose” present-day therapies for future use. Researchers have developed an algorithmic tool, PHENSIM, which simulates tissue-specific infection of host cells…
Beating Heart Disease: Daily Statin Lowers Cardiovascular Risk in People With HIV
The NIH stopped a clinical trial early after finding that daily statin medication, pitavastatin calcium, reduced cardiovascular disease risk in people living with HIV by…
Decoding Aspirin: New Research Unveils the Secrets Behind Its Powerful Effects
Understanding how aspirin reduces inflammation could lead to alternatives with fewer side effects. New research has revealed important information about how aspirin works. Even though…
Warning: Sleep Medications May Increase Your Chances of Dementia
Do Sleep Medications Increase Your Chances of Dementia? University of California, San Francisco-Led study shows benzos, antidepressants, and Ambien may impact cognition. A new scientific…
Interacting Human Protein Map Prioritizes New Targets for Drug Discovery From Shared Basis of Diseases
Scientists at Open Targets, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and GSK are revealing the shared basis of diseases using a map…