The novel system can make customizable pills that release drugs with any desired release profiles

For scientists, the potent molecules in venoms hold the potential to be adapted into medicines

Team hopes to shorten time, difficulty in measuring their effectiveness, potential

Researchers remove excess additives from drugs, which could reduce the odds of serious allergic reactions and other side effects

Scientists at the University of York have conducted new research into measuring how commonly-prescribed pharmaceuticals behave in the guts of starlings

Trioxacarcin molecules bind to the DNA of targeted cells and prevent them from replicating

Fighting chemoresistant cancer remains a huge challenge that scientists are tackling from as many angles as they can

A tunable protein piston that breaks membranes to release encapsulated cargo

The model, presented in the journal eLife, uses an approach that could lead to accurate predictions of the interactions between novel drugs and their targets, helping to reduce the cost of drug discovery

Team builds a microfluidics-based tissue that copies the liver's complex lobules