Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...

Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level. The ...

A team of scientists in California has tweaked the hallucinogenic drug LSD to make it usable to treat schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases.According to the ...

Such molecules would be suited to acting as quantum bits, or qubits, the basic unit of information in quantum systems. But ...

For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is ...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis have successfully altered the LSD molecule slightly, creating a new molecule called JRT by changing the position of two atoms. This ...

Another reason for choosing a particular modality is that it is a team’s specialty. Strategic choices can be less about determining which modality best fits a potential target than about choosing a ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing ...

A team at UC Davis has created a new drug called JRT that mimics LSD’s brain-healing effects without the hallucinogenic side ...

University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that ...

Psychedelics drugs with the hallucinatory effects shut down show promise in reconnecting broken neural synaptic connections, which are the cause of some grave diseases.

LSD has always been a source of fascination for Olson because of its outstanding ability to form and strengthen neural ...