Hydralazine, a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure and preeclampsia, may also help stop the growth of ...

Malaria represents one of the most serious threats to human health worldwide, and preventing and curing this parasitic disease still depends predominantly on the administration of a small number of ...

Serendipity is to thank for several ground-breaking discoveries and treatments, such as Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin. 1 However, most drug breakthroughs stem from systematic ...

One might expect that researchers would know how methylphenidate works in the brain by now, but little is known about the drug's mechanism of action. Now, a new study seeks to close this gap and ...

Dave Lahr, PhD, is currently leading the computational biology group at Foghorn Therapeutics, a biotech startup focused on treating diseases by correcting abnormal gene expression. In the early days ...

A Penn-led team has revealed how hydralazine, one of the world's oldest blood pressure drugs and a mainstay treatment for ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...