An experimental drug called tofersen that could help treat a rare kind of ALS is headed to a phase 3 trial.

A new formula for ultrafast insulin could work in much less time than the current stuff, according to research with pigs.

Certain cancer therapeutics concentrate within cells — a finding that could change the way scientists think about drug design.

A new synthetic antibody may prevent the coronavirus from causing infection by blocking attachment to a key enzyme. It shows promise in a study with mice.

Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.

MIT researchers pinpoint mechanism and demonstrate that drugs could help.

New research on influenza suggests that "the right early-stage antiviral treatment can block transmission to others and, in the long run, may well save more lives."

Automated tabletop machine could accelerate the development of novel drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.

Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.

The antibody S309, first identified in a blood sample from a recovered SARS patient, inhibits the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, researchers report.