A team of scientists has designed a molecular system that distinguishes and neutralizes cancer cells with unprecedented precision, paving the way for autonomous and self-regulating drugs. How can ...

A study of people using cognition-enhancing drugs without a prescription (conducted in London) found that these individuals had faster reaction and error-correction times with equally accurate ...

The growing personal use of nootropics — drugs, supplements or other substances that enhance cognitive function — has given rise to safety concerns. On Tuesday, physicians at the Annual Meeting of the ...

In what is being hailed as the future of breast cancer treatment, local researchers have shown that a smart drug combined with chemotherapy effectively kills tumors during early stages of breast ...

Cancer treatment has long been haunted by the same problem: how do you strike dangerous cells without hitting healthy ones nearby? A team at the University of Geneva has built a drug-delivery system ...

Just a few years ago, Daniel Chen, M.D., Ph.D., was spending his spare time in his backyard, sketching out designs for new ...

The real question here, for me, is what would the benefit be to humankind of making smart drugs available to everyone? It might mean that people could do things with less effort than before, which ...

Medical illustration showing how plaque buildup and clot formation can restrict blood flow in arteries. Researchers have developed a luteolin-based nanomedicine that targets and stabilizes these ...

A collaboration between researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel and the University of Colorado in Boulder has yielded a new “smart” drug that targets site-specific ...

How can cancer cells be targeted without damaging healthy tissue? This is one of the major challenges facing oncology today. Using synthetic DNA strands, a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) ...