A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...

In a recent study published in PLoS Pathogens, researchers described a novel antiviral mechanism of action for an FDA (food and drug administration)-approved thiopurine known as 6-thioguanine (6-TG).

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 ...

Race Oncology has achieved a breakthrough with its lead drug candidate RC220, identifying for the first time the primary ...

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 ...

While Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors are often hailed as the next big breakthrough in multiple sclerosis, Immunic ...

Metastatic cancer accounts for up to 90% of all cancer deaths in the US annually. Now, researchers have trialed a first-of-its-kind monoclonal antibody drug that inhibits the process by which cancer ...