Team uncovers a potential therapeutic approach for patients deficient in a protein called Shank3.

The modernization and miniaturization of pharmaceutical production could expand the range of ingredients medicinal chemists use to make new drugs.

Immunotherapy for cancer is on the brink of breakthroughs. Learn how NIBR have high expectations for this medical science.

An interview with Thierry Diagana, Head of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases.

Novartis researchers are searching for more effective ways to discover drugs for neurological and psychiatric diseases.

A researcher in South Africa investigating a rare skin disease was losing hope of a breakthrough. Then she made a discovery.

Collaborations are driving advances in sickle cell disease research, bringing new hope to patients.

Most people have never heard of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic disease that affects approximately 1 in 6,000 babies born worldwide each year. Innovative research may produce treatments for patients suffering from SMA and other rare diseases.

The word “biopsy” typically conjures images of large needles. Lab technicians—and scientists working to discover new medicines—need enough tissue from a patient to prepare and evaluate a sample.

Using new technologies, researchers have developed a deeper understanding of how cells function, changing conceptions of disease.