Detected in three drug samples during community checks, the little-known opioid cychlorphine may be as potent as fentanyl, ...

A common chemotherapy drug’s hidden potential for becoming a game-changing weapon in the fight against cancer has been ...

Animal studies say rapamycin can slow aging – but does it work in humans? A new review finds the evidence for the off-label, low-dose use of the drug in healthy adults is thin, inconsistent, and far ...

Skin pigmentation may act as a "sponge" for some medications, potentially influencing the speed with which active drugs reach their intended targets, a pair of scientists report in a perspective ...

Tested in animal models of acute myeloid leukemia, the new nanomedicine was dramatically more effective while also less toxic.

By restructuring a common chemotherapy drug, scientists increased its potency by 20,000 times. In a significant step forward for cancer therapy, researchers at Northwestern University have redesigned ...

Scientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have used nanotechnology to re-engineer the molecular structure ...

Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and ...