A recent study shows that computer algorithms can be used to find molecules that can be developed into anti-inflammatory drugs. In the article, the researchers also describe how the same strategy can ...

Potent drugs like chemotherapy can be life-saving, but often with life-threatening side effects. Notably, they can be ...

Chemical reactions are the backbone to nearly all biological processes, including those used to make new medicines. However, ...

Photosensitive drug molecules that can be activated by visible green light could lead to novel precision therapeutics to treat cancer and other diseases. Researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

As the science of drug discovery has grown in scale and gotten more complicated, so have the drug molecules themselves. But there’s a promising class of drugs made of just a handful of atoms that ...

AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals. At 82 years old, with an aggressive form of blood cancer that six courses of ...

A method developed by a research group at Tampere University seeks specific molecules that can target desired tissues through the bloodstream and penetrate tissues by passing through cells. This ...

A team at the University of Münster in Germany has figured out how to build a molecule shaped like a tiny house, and the key ...

The drug industry has been working on how to shuttle drugs through the blood-brain barrier, and the results will become ...

Structure of the protein OGG1 (colour: purple, left) and one of the molecules that inhibit the activity of the enzyme (colour: yellow, middle and right). A recent study shows that computer algorithms ...