Drug repurposing is emerging as a strategic approach for treating rare and orphan diseases that have limited treatment options. By repurposing existing drugs, companies can potentially shorten ...

Side-view of the human eye, viewed approximately 90° temporal. Image by Paul Savage. CC BY 2.0 Side-view of the human eye, viewed approximately 90° temporal. Image by Paul Savage. CC BY 2.0 Drug ...

Cory Simpson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Washington, spoke to the need for more treatment options in genetic skin conditions and the possibility of drug ...

Move over, Hugh Laurie: there’s a new Dr. House in town. Harvard Medical School associate professor Marinka Zitnik and her lab announced the development of TxGNN, an artificial intelligence model ...

HERSHEY, Pa. — Americans pay a lot of money for prescription medications. In 2023, spending on prescription drugs in the United Stated topped $722 billion, a trend that’s expected to continue. Yet, ...

Drug repurposing shows promise in the treatment of retinal degenerations, according to a new study by an international team of researchers, published in Nature Communications. A combination treatment ...

One person's side effect could be another person's treatment if we expand our perspective on small molecule drug targets, according to a new study published November 5, 2025, in npj Precision Oncology ...

Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, has a very poor prognosis. More than 95% of glioblastoma patients die within five years of diagnosis. Glioblastoma has an incidence rate of 3.19 per 100,000 ...

Technological advances and the increasing availability of genomic data and computational systems have resulted in new methods to systematically identify both drug targets and pathways for detecting ...

One current research avenue is to look at currently-approved medications that are used for other diseases, an approach that is called drug repurposing. A new study has identified two cancer ...