Drug Discovery

Someone had to walk into a shrinking Brazilian rainforest, find a tree that grows nowhere else on Earth, and collect its leaves before this discovery could ever make headlines. Researchers studying the plant have now found compounds that showed antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in laboratory experiments, with one molecule appearing to interact strongly with a …

Something in the human brain can go wrong in ways that modern medicine still cannot fix. Every year, more than 14,000 Americans learn they have glioblastoma, a cancer so aggressive and so resistant to treatment that most patients survive barely more than a year after diagnosis. Surgery can remove parts of it, but the cancer …