Drug discovery

Work by an international team in Japan has found a new and effective way to attack cancer inside the body.

Boston bioscientists have found an unlikely ally in anthrax toxins, which could form the basis for a new kind of painkiller.

How work on sharks could provide a highly effective weapon against new COVID variants

What can the Professor X of Heidelberg tell us about a new way of tackling cancer?

A 2000-participant study in Europe has examined how drugs – and combinations of drugs – can affect the microbiota in our gut.

Can newly discovered antibodies help us do away with annual flu vaccinations?

A drug development journey with origins in the 1950s has finally reached its successful conclusion: a new treatment for lupus

A Korean team have conducted a study on a peptide that could help to produce medicines capable of crossing cell membranes and interfering with PPIs

Mogrify's Karin Schmitt explains how epigenetic switches are support the conversion and maintenance of any clinically valuable cell types

Longstanding treatments for tapeworm could take on COVID-19