Artificial Intelligence Helps Design Better Antibody Drugs
Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has…
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A Glowing New Weapon in the Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing…
Natural Painkiller: New Research Advances the Treatment of Chronic Pain
LIH and RTI International put forward the mode of action of natural painkiller conolidine, and develop new molecule with enhanced pharmacological properties. Building on their…
Could a Simple Pill Beat COVID-19? Pfizer May Have a “Cure” by the End of the Year
While the focus has been largely on vaccines, you might have also heard Pfizer is trialing a pill to treat COVID-19. It almost sounds too good…
Non-hallucinogenic Psychedelic Analog Rapidly Reverses Effects of Stress on the Brain
Free of toxic and hallucinogenic side effects, ibogaine-inspired tabernanthalog shows promise as a potential treatment for the detrimental effects of stress on the brain. A…
Antibiotics Can Treat Human Diseases Like Cancer – Not Just Bacterial Infections
UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cells. According to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the…
Soft X-ray Method Promises Nanocarrier Breakthroughs for Smart Medicine and Environmental Clean-Up
Before the huge potential of tiny nanocarriers for highly targeted drug delivery and environmental clean-up can be realized, scientists first need to be able to…
Potential New Treatment Target Discovered in the Fight Against COVID-19
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers identify a novel target and a potential new therapy that could offer an additional treatment option against COVID-19…
Molecular Biologists Travel Back in Time – Over 3 Billion Years
A research team working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are…
Drugs Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients Tracked Throughout the Pandemic
Efforts to Treat COVID-19 Patients Chronicled in UC Health Medications Data A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at…
The Hunger Games: Scientists Uncover the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain
A 3D structure reveals how a unique molecular switch in our brain causes us to feel full – and may help develop improved anti-obesity drugs….
Building Molecules Like Tinkertoys? Breakthrough May Transform the Field of Chemical Discovery
University of Chicago chemists aim to transform the field of chemical discovery. Molecules are the building blocks for our modern world, from phones to cars…
Body’s Natural Pain Killers Can Be Enhanced – Works With Fewer Side Effects Than Opioids
A study in cells and mice finds compound works with fewer side effects than opioids. Fentanyl, oxycodone, morphine—these substances are familiar to many as a…
Same Drug Can Have Opposite Effects on Memory in Males and Females
A research team from the Institut de Neurociències at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has shown that inhibition through a drug of the Tac2…
PsychLight: Genetically Encoded Sensor to Enable Discovery of New Psychiatric Drugs
A genetically encoded sensor to detect hallucinogenic compounds has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Named psychLight, the sensor could be…
Scientists Discover a Psychedelic-Like Drug Without the Hallucinogenic Side Effects
Psychedelic drugs have shown promise for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, due to their hallucinatory side effects, some researchers…
Medical Cannabis Products Are Not Always What They Seem
THC and CBD Content on Labels of Medicinal Cannabis Products Can Be Very Inaccurate A study of metabolites in the urine of patients taking medical…
New COVID-19 Vaccine May Offer Broad Protection Against Existing and Future Coronavirus Strains at a Cost of $1
A COVID-19 vaccine that could provide protection against existing and future strains of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and other coronaviruses, and costs about $1 a dose…
