While vaccination and public education concerning the transmission of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 have been at the forefront of our response to the pandemic, there remains an urgent need for pharmaceutical interventions ...
Mar 24, 2022
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An anti-inflammatory drug candidate, known as 3,6'-dithiopomalidomide (DP) and designed by researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), protected lab mice against cognitive decline by reducing brain inflammation. ...
Mar 2, 2022
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It takes 10 to 15 years and around US$1 billion to develop one successful drug. Despite these significant investments in time and money, 90% of drug candidates in clinical trials fail. Whether because they don't adequately ...
Feb 24, 2022
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The mononucleosis virus, Epstein-Barr, has become a major suspect in the search for what causes multiple sclerosis.
Feb 10, 2022
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Using a stem-cell-derived model, researchers have identified two drug candidates that may slow dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness for which no treatment exists. The scientists, from the ...
Dec 15, 2021
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The first Australian COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate, developed by the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), has moved a step closer with production reaching a significant development milestone.
Nov 30, 2021
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Rice University researchers have introduced an online portal to help researchers screen COVID-19 drug candidates that might attack specific proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Nov 1, 2021
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Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the COVID pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionize ...
Oct 29, 2021
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There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection—a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally.
Oct 26, 2021
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Pandemic-induced boredom, isolation, health fears, and financial hits have been bad enough, not to mention an early shortage of consumer goods.
Oct 19, 2021
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