Drug discovery and development – Page 34

  • Feature

    Making light work

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Could light prove to be the ultimate weapon in the battle against deadly superbugs?

  • Opinion

    Feeling the burn

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    How long is ‘too long’ in the drug discovery game?

  • A freshly-scored opium poppy seedpod bleeding latex.
    Podcast

    Morphine

    2011-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Pain relief: provided by nature, often abused

  • Pink nitroglycerine tablets scattered on a black background
    Podcast

    Nitroglycerine

    2011-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Peter Wothers investigates a medicinal compound with a very explosive beginning

  • Mould on jam
    Podcast

    Penicillin

    2011-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A world-changing antibacterial compound born from the horrors of war

  • Intravenous drip
    Podcast

    Salvarsan

    2010-12-22T00:00:00Z

    Giving us the history behind the first man-made chemotherapy agent, Phil Robinson talks us through Salvarsan

  • TETRACYCLINE generic drug pills in a prescription bottle
    Podcast

    Tetracycline

    2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton travels back to 1945 where a sample of Missouri soil produced a golden yellow antibiotic

  • Feature

    The birth of the pill

    2010-08-27T14:45:00Z

    Fifty years after its birth, John Mann reports on the conception and evolution of the contraceptive pill

  • Antibiotic tablets on a white table
    Podcast

    Vancomycin

    2010-07-21T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton explains the chemistry behind Vancomycin, an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections

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    Careers

    A cross-discipline MSc in cancer chemistry

    2007-11-28T14:27:00Z

    A unique MSc course focuses on the cross-disciplinary know-how needed for a career in anti-cancer drug development. Joe McEntee reports

  • A photograph of Albert Hofmann with an a model of the LSD molecule
    Feature

    LSD: cultural revolution and medical advances

    2005-12-22T21:06:00Z

    Albert Hofmann has largely faded from public view but his creation has become part of our cultural fabric. David Nichols reports