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Blog / Tea Leaves and Test Tubes: When Traditional Plant Remedies Stand Up to Research

May 5, 2025 / Luvna Dhawka /

From willow bark to Nobel Prize-winning malaria treatments, ancient plant remedies that have withstood scientific scrutiny continue to fuel breakthrough medical discoveries in the modern world. When my dermatologist suggested…

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Blog / Capsaicin: from mild to medicine

March 21, 2023March 22, 2023 / Ivanna Zhilinskaya /

Capsaicin, or the spice molecule, has far more function and benefit than just causing you to break a sweat. It can contribute to a longer and healthier life and now we know why.

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Blog / New peptide lures disease-causing proteins to their degrading demise

March 9, 2023 / Bree Iskandar /

Scientists recently discovered a new peptide that inhibits a disease-protein by recruiting it to an intracellular protein shredder. This peptide shows proof of concept for a potential class of drugs that act by degrading misbehaving proteins in the body.

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Blog / Why don’t we have more medicines to treat fungal infections?

August 4, 2021 / Breanna Turman /

Drug resistant fungal infections are a growing problem in the US and the world. The problem is made worse by the limited drug therapies available to treat fungal infections, so what’s the hold up? Why can’t we just develop more anti-fungal drugs?

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Blog / What to Expect when Running the Gauntlet of Drug Development

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 / Bree Iskandar /

A guide to understanding what it really means when you hear that a developing drug is “in the pipeline”.

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Blog / Hope for difficult-to-treat cancers

February 17, 2020February 18, 2020 / Danielle Chappell /

Cancer research discovery makes undruggable Ras druggable.

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