Science

Noise is usually considered a nuisance, for example when preventing us from clearly hearing what someone is saying. The general concept of noise…

Sanofi VP and Senior Medical Officer Riccardo Perfetti, M.D., Ph.D., has made the jump to Applied Therapeutics, a New York-based early-stage biotech…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo (USP) campus in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has used big…

“We shouldn’t limit ourselves to just single drugs or two-drug combinations in our medical toolbox,” said Pamela Yeh (left), with Elif Tekin.…

Prague, city of legends and myths. Of fairy tale architecture, legions of dramatic statues, countless pub crawls. Where better to learn that some key…

The FDA has initiated a pilot program (PDF) to help drug developers use complex innovative trial designs (CID). Sponsors accepted into the four-year…

Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness even greater than…

RootPath, the brainchild of scientists and bioengineers from MIT, Harvard, Stanford and the like, has raised $7 million in seed funding to develop a…

Scientists have determined the DNA code of the opium poppy genome, uncovering key steps in how the plant evolved to produce the pharmaceutical…

A team of researchers have discovered that terahertz (THz) wave irradiation activates the filamentation of actin protein. Drs. Shota Yamazaki and…