Pharmaceuticals

PharmaCheck relies on microfluidics to test tiny amounts of a drug to make sure it contains the active ingredient. Cynthia Graber reports.

Despite decades of research decoding the influenza virus—and great advances in treating and vaccinating against the disease—this infectious pathogen continues both to surprise and confound us

Nutrition Diva: Quick and Dirty Tips for Eating Well and Feeling Fabulous

New actions aim to help the agency respond to quality control issues that force drugmakers to discard medicines

Improved treatments offer hope for eradication of these viral liver infections

New cases in Syria highlight the vulnerability of nearby countries to the viral disease

Grasshopper mice have evolved biochemical pathways that thwart scorpion venom by reacting to it as a painkiller. Sophie Bushwick reports.

Figuring out how biomolecular self-organization happens may hold the key to understanding life on Earth formed and perhaps how it might form on other planets

Watery eyes could be a good thing after all

A common mood-stabilizing drug, valproate, is found to control manic-like behavior induced in mice with an extra copy of a gene called SHANK3

Increasing the numbers of adolescents who got the pertussis vaccine reduced the number of babies who were hospitalized with the disease. Sophie Bushwick reports

The politics of capital punishment is affecting drug manufacturing decisions and forcing doctors to worry about sources of anesthesia, such as propofol