In 2023, state health departments in Florida and Texas reported the first locally acquired cases of mosquito-transmitted malaria in nearly 20 years. Just nine years earlier, Zika virus, a new tropical ...

Developing high-quality, safe, and effective drugs is a complex process that requires varied scientific skills and stringent regulatory assessments. Drug development is a process that spans many years ...

Discover how AI is revolutionizing RNA drug development in a new article published in Engineering. Learn about the potential ...

The pharmaceutical industry has long operated on a one-size-fits-all model, developing drugs primarily tested on, and thus best suited for, people of European descent. This approach ignores — and ...

When researchers are making a new drug, they face years of work in development and trials. Then, in about 90 per cent of cases, the outcome is a failure and they slide back, snakes-and-ladders style, ...

Discover how drugs prevent, cure, and alleviate ailments. Learn about over-the-counter vs. prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry's impact on healthcare.

In Silicon Valley, scientific altruism meets entrepreneurship in the race for ne A research team has reason to celebrate after the Food and Drug Administration granted it approval on Friday to begin a ...

Turning the tide on antibiotic resistance will require new ways of working, writes executive director of the Global ...

The research and development of new pharmaceuticals is increasingly an international affair, something that recent discussion about how tariffs might affect drug prices has made very clear. And even ...

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

The next wave of obesity drugs is coming soon. Drug companies are racing to develop GLP-1 drugs following the blockbuster success of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and ...

Pharma companies are rushing to get the next generation of weight-loss drugs to market. Ozempic, which has become synonymous with these types of injectable drugs used to treat diabetes and for weight ...