A Canadian scientist, now based in the UK and funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, has harnessed a new drug discovery tool to identify a new player in the body's ...

Most current diabetes treatments, from insulin injections to newer GLP-1 agonists, don’t solve the underlying cause of the disease. The ability to regenerate insulin-producing cells in the pancreas ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The difference between mental health and mental illness can turn on changes in brain cells and their connections that are almost incomprehensibly tiny, at least in physical ...

Mapping the molecular structure where medicine goes to work is a crucial step toward drug discovery against deadly diseases. Researchers at Michigan State University have taken that critical first ...

Acid reducing medicines from the group of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are best-selling drugs that prevent and alleviate stomach problems. PPIs are activated in the acid-producing cells of the ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over how metformin, the world’s most prescribed diabetes drug, works beyond lowering blood sugar. Now, a study from Kobe University reports that metformin users ...