Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Finding a cure for viruses like Ebola, Zika, or even the flu is a ...

There are other persistent, grave health crises brewing besides the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Antibiotic resistance is one, and the troubling trend is that it’s on the rise, leading to an increase in ...

IBM Watson has helped to develop a 'triple-play action' macromolecule that could help fight both viral infection and drug resistance. In a collaboration with Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering ...

Quantum physics tells us about the properties and behaviors of atomic and subatomic particles. But scientists have long held the belief that the rules that govern the microscopic world should also be ...

Vakil Takhaveev joined Matthias Heinemann’s laboratory at the University of Groningen in 2015 to research cellular metabolism. Early in his studies using budding yeast as a model organism, he peered ...

Viruses have eluded our best efforts to fight them off. They mutate much more quickly than bacteria, and most anti-viral drugs that do keep symptoms at bay need to be administered for the rest of a ...

An important goal in drug development is to engineer inhibitors and ligands that have high binding affinities for their target molecules. In optimizing these interactions, the precise determination of ...