Developing new drugs is rarely as simple as spending an amount of money and coming out with an effective and marketable product on a set schedule. Artificial intelligence can help — sifting through millions of molecular combinations and existing drugs to find the few that can be repurposed or redesigned to cure.

Scientists in Germany say they’ve been able to make a nasal vaccine that can shut down a Covid-19 infection in the nose and throat, where the virus gets its first foothold in the body. In experiments in hamsters, two doses of the vaccine – which is made with a live but weakened form of the coronavirus that […]

A protein that’s become increasingly important to ALS drugmakers is likely to get even more attention after a recent regulatory meeting signaled it could be used to support the approval of some experimental treatments. The Food and Drug Administration convened last week a group of agency advisers to gather input on tofersen, a medicine developed […]