An international team of researchers headed by scientists at the University of Copenhagen has discovered that venoms produced by one group of fish-hunting deep sea cone snails contain compounds ...

The drugs have names that sound like small planets: semaglutide, liraglutide, lixisenatide. Collectively, they belong to a class of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analogs that has reshaped the ...

Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were treated with the newer generation of insulin analog drugs did not have substantially better outcomes than those treated with less costly human insulin, according ...

Challenges with social interactions, including face-to-face communication, can accompany depression, schizophrenia, and autism spectrum disorders. Doctors have long sought medication as a way to ...

Prostacyclin (PGI2) and phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitors are vasodilators used in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Although these drugs stimulate vascular dilation directly ...

The natural product amphotericin B is an approved medication for treating some fungal infections, and fungi haven’t developed resistance to it. But the drug causes kidney damage, convulsions, heart ...

A global study of the use of geological analogs has revealed key information about how geoscientists, engineers, and managers use and misuse analogs. Those who conducted the study used comprehensive ...