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A groundbreaking discovery by chemists at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will have a significant impact on how pharmaceutical companies develop new drug treatments.

Researchers of the University of Würzburg have developed a method that makes it possible to measure the activation of receptors in a very short time. This might speed up the development of new drugs.

For years, pregnant women have been underrepresented in biomedical research. Current treatments, interventions and guidelines do a poor job of taking into consideration the diverse characteristics of all pregnant women. A new digital approach hopes to address the many knowledge gaps around pregnancy.

Machine learning algorithms that can predict yeast metabolism from its protein content have been developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute. The findings could provide a basis scientists to personalise treatments for metabolic disorder patients, in the future.

The same immune system that fights infection and the flu could join the battle against opioid addiction.

A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered, bringing us one step closer to engineering a range of crops to fix their own nitrogen.

A worldwide study has established and standardized a new method to measure exact distances within individual molecules down to the scale of one millionth of the width of a human hair.

A $4.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will help researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson focus on one particular fibrotic disease. Named idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the disease is caused by the formation of scar tissue within the lungs.

Researchers have developed a sensitive new test to detect trace amounts of peanuts in foods using the peanuts’ DNA.

The use of micromotors to diagnose and treat disease is one step closer to becoming a reality.