Researchers have successfully delivered insulin to the colons of rats using an orally administered tablet powered by chemical “micromotors.”
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A team of researchers from Florida International University has been awarded a U.S. patent for devising methods for chemically synthesizing arsinothricin (AST), a new arsenic-based antibiotic.
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In a new small-scale study, researchers have shown intermittent fasting diets can help patients achieve complete diabetes remission without medication.
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The gold in SIM cards and circuit boards can be extracted and used as a catalyst that stimulates reactions that can be used in drug manufacturing.
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A new study shows news coverage of a controversial FDA decision is impacting the public so much that it’s having a negative affect on pharmaceutical trials.
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The FDA has approved teplizumab, a new immunotherapy drug that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes in at-risk individuals by an average of almost three years.
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One dose of an antibody drug safely protected healthy, non-pregnant adults from malaria infection during an intense six-month malaria season in Mali, Africa.
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A new paper by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus expounds on the importance of using multiple data types in drug discovery.
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Researchers have created a freely accessible platform that shows where in the world different types of resistant bacteria are found and in what quantities.
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The growing threat of antibiotic resistance has scientists looking high and low for alternatives. Recently, a multinational team of researchers in Europe found their answer by looking down—in the soil.
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While many probiotics are thought to improve the health of the gut microbiome, a new study by researchers at Newcastle University shows probiotics do not give uniform results.
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Many of the metal compounds demonstrated a good activity against all fungal strains and were up to 30,000 times more active against fungi than against human cells.
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Two doctors at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found a rare but potentially serious complication of the monkeypox virus in two of their patients—encephalomyelitis, or inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
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Scientists hope this advance will lead to many new vaccines, treatments, tools for carbon capture, and sustainable biomaterials.
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WHO reported 14 million more cases of malaria in 2020 compared with 2019, resulting in 69,000 more deaths. Approximately two-thirds of the additional deaths were linked to COVID-19-caused disruptions.
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