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A pharmaceutical entrepreneur and University of Connecticut alumna has made a $250,000 gift to UConn’s School of Pharmacy for building out a program focused on non-animal methods of drug testing, ...

The earliest stage of drug discovery is governed by a simple constraint: there are far more possible drug-like molecules than any pharmaceutical laboratory could ever test. A new deep learning system, ...

Lots of people are talking about peptides. But what are they? Here’s a quick primer on the health trend and what we know about peptides’ safety.

Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

Gina Roberts used to have this recurring nightmare: frantic and broke, she would search everywhere for a drink, but always the alcohol would remain out of reach. The dream would trigger such ...

Finding out how microbes make compounds containing the diazo chemical group could help researchers to synthesize useful ...