Using AI to discover, or design, the building blocks of drugs is a fast-growing area of research. Another team of scientists out of Philadelphia is using AI to discover new antibiotics by resurrecting ...

Fifteen years ago, an analysis of drug molecules moving through the stages of clinical development suggested that increased three-dimensional character was a marker of greater success. Now ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

Here, azadirachtin is co-assembled with plant secondary metabolites for efficient drug delivery, demonstrating pest management, the activation of plant defensive capacity, while increasing the ...

In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of the applications of computational intelligence and predictive analytics in screening potential lead molecules against COVID-19 with an emphasis on the ...

which aims to chart out the fundamental rules of how drug molecules bind with and influence their biological targets. “This is exactly the kind of ambitious, transformative project that becomes ...

Drug addiction is a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance with a harmful outcome. Drugs overstimulate the brain’s reward circuit, producing pleasure or euphoria. With repeated ...

Delivering drugs to specific, hard-to-reach areas in the human body remains a challenge in drug development. Typically, drug molecules administered via pills or injections circulate randomly through ...

Top doctors raised concerns about domestically made drugs, saying Beijing’s effort to lower costs is sacrificing quality. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong A rare ...

It’s time to move on from treating heroin as Europe’s main drug problem, according to the head of the European Union’s drugs agency. That’s not to say heroin isn’t still a major problem.