Drugs can only work if they stick to their target proteins in the body. Assessing that stickiness is a key hurdle in the drug discovery and screening process. New research combining chemistry and ...

It costs around US$880 million to bring a new drug to market, even when the price of failure and the cost of capital are included, suggests the latest stab at calculating the cost of drug development.

Bacteria have dangerously evolved to thwart many of the medicines that were designed to kill them. As a result, a growing antibiotic resistance crisis is responsible for more than 700,000 deaths each ...