The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
[ad_1] The Covid-19 crisis highlighted certain economic and welfare issues associated with using animals for research. Pandemic-related closures meant that many labs had to halt experiments and euthanize animals. Then the…
Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look
[ad_1] Shortages persist because of complex structural problems. Take, for instance, one that the pandemic briefly made visible: the reality that many American medications are manufactured somewhere else, at the end…
A Drug to Treat Aging May Not Be a Pipe Dream
[ad_1] Life expectancy in the best-performing countries has been increasing by three months per year every year since the early 1800s. Throughout most of human history, you had a roughly…
The Next Great Overdose-Reversing Drug Might Already Exist
[ad_1] Critics say the Schedule I classification is heavy-handed, based on fear rather than evidence. “It bypasses science,” says Maritza Perez, a director at the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit…
For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers
[ad_1] Watching the Alzheimer’s research world from the outside over the past two years has felt like a car ride over an unpaved mountain road without a seatbelt. In 2021,…
The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context
[ad_1] In November 2021, when the psychedelics company Compass Pathways released the top-line results of its trial looking at psilocybin in patients with treatment-resistant depression, the stock of the company…
Seeking Psychedelics? Check the Data Privacy Clause
[ad_1] Next week, Coloradans will vote on a ballot initiative that, if approved, would create a regulated market for psilocybin in the state. Under this initiative, called Proposition 122, or…
The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91
[ad_1] That legal request took weeks to bear fruit. Finally, one evening in the early weeks of January 2017, Ali was in the middle of a law school night class…
America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People
[ad_1] Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide shortage of immediate release amphetamine mixed salts. For many people who take this medication, the announcement just…
Martin Shkreli Is Back With a Web3 Drug Discovery Platform
[ad_1] Martin Shkreli—the notorious ex-pharmaceutical executive fresh from prison after his 2017 fraud conviction—announced his latest, eyebrow-raising venture this week: the creation of a blockchain-based Web3 drug discovery platform that…
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could Work
[ad_1] Insulin was first discovered in 1921, and the following year, a 14-year-old boy suffering from diabetes became the first person treated with it. The medical breakthrough won a Nobel…
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
[ad_1] “This is my life,” Wallach says. “There is nothing else I’d rather be doing. If I was given a billion dollars, today, the first thing I would do is…
A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert
[ad_1] And there are undoubtedly many more bacteria out there that could give us useful new antibiotics to use. But if you find what appears to be a promising one,…
Abortion Pill Demand Is Driving an Underground Network
[ad_1] The panic started as soon as Jayda took the test in early July. It came back positive, and a quick calculation suggested she was seven weeks pregnant. It was…