Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline cause severe and often long-lasting hallucinations, but they also show great potential in treating a number of serious psychiatric conditions, ...

Using 3-D Modeling to Optimize Small Molecule Drug Discovery Structure-based drug designers identify and optimize small molecules that affect the activity of target proteins, such as kinases, by ...

Structure Therapeutics’ lead drug candidate is chasing big pharmaceutical rivals in the race for new oral weight-loss medications, and the company had been telling investors to expect data late this ...

About 30,000 cases of lung cancer occur in Spain each year. Mutations in KRAS oncogenes account for 10-15% of these cases, a subgroup against which there are still no effective therapies. Researchers ...

AMES, Iowa – Edward Yu took note of the facts – nearly 2 million deaths each year, 9 million infected each year, developments of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and now totally ...

Chemists discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Knowledge of this structure may make it possible to design drugs that could block transport ...