There are many ways to kill microbes that cause dangerous infections. Combining genetic screening with machine learning can help researchers identify new antimicrobials.

Initially developed in the 1950s, nitazenes are a type of synthetic opioid that has reappeared in Philadelphia’s street drug supply.

‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.

An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?

Improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms of addiction can change how researchers and clinicians approach treatments.

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the promise of using mRNA as medicine. But before mRNA drugs can go beyond vaccines, researchers need to identify the right diseases to treat.

Women are catching up with men’s drug use.

Drug development takes a great deal of time, money and effort. While future profits play a big factor in which diseases gets prioritized, advocacy and research incentives can also tilt the scale.

Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.