Developing high-quality, safe, and effective drugs is a complex process that requires varied scientific skills and stringent regulatory assessments. Drug development is a process that spans many years ...

Formulation development serves as a vital bridge between a drug substance and a drug product that will remain stable and ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway. By Steve Lohr Photographs by Spencer Lowell ...

Economic incentives and patent protections drive development of innovative medications. Drug prices are determined by consumer demand, not production costs. Therefore, governmental regulation risks ...

Glucagon-like peptide agonists (GLP-1s, like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro) have been hailed as breakthroughs. From statins to Viagra, occasionally a drug development breakthrough occurs that is ...

Sandra Gostynska and Augen Pioszak, Ph.D., of the University of Oklahoma are authors of a new paper in Science Signaling that sheds light on the hormone amylin and the receptors it targets in the ...

Budget and staffing cuts at the Food and Drug Administration orchestrated by President Donald Trump could prevent new drugs “from being developed, approved, or commercialized in a timely manner, or at ...

When pharmaceutical companies develop a novel drug for the market, several steps are required to assess and regulate its safety, effectiveness, manufacturability, and reliability. These processes, and ...