A screening tool developed at Stony Brook University may be helping researchers identify women who might be at a higher risk of substance use while pregnant. The study, which reviewed medical charts ...

Drugs, both legal and illegal, cause millions of cases of severe intoxication every year, leading to health complications and even fatalities. Often, they are also implicated in violent and sexual ...

Virtual screening can be approached in several ways, depending on whether the comparison is based on the known small molecule binders (ligands) or the target protein structure. Ligand-based virtual ...

Virtual screening is a set of computational methods used to evaluate large numbers of molecules and identify those most likely to interact with a biological target, typically a protein. The concept is ...

Most worksite injury prevention programs focus solely on conditions of the worksite – making sure workers properly use PPE, correct equipment usage and more. But worksite accidents don't happen in a ...

Drug discovery is a high-risk, high-cost endeavor, with over 90% of candidates failing in clinical development. A significant proportion of these failures stem from unresolved biopharmaceutic ...