Scientists at MIT have developed bottlebrush-shaped molecules that can carry groups of different cancer drugs in just the right ratio. Tests in mice showed significantly improved outcomes compared to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, cancer patients have been told that shrinking tumors meant accepting brutal side effects as the price of ...

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 ...

Seattle biotech startup Rhizome Research has emerged from stealth with technology for creating small-molecule drug candidates ...

How can we improve drug specificity? Larger, more complex drugs may be the way to target ‘undruggable’ cell targets, but how are these drugs taken up by cells? Researchers at the University of ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method of delivering drugs into human cells using large biological molecules, by first encasing them ...

Scientists have invented a way to image, across different tissues and with higher precision than ever before, where drugs bind to their targets in the body. The new method could become a routine tool ...

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 ...

When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is, they don’t. Molecules can’t transport themselves through the body, ...

Misbehaving proteins are behind many diseases. One way drugmakers incapacitate these bad actors is to deploy molecules that bind to them. But finding solid footholds on the proteins to block their ...