Safer opioid painkiller made from scratch

Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 05:01 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain without triggering the dangerous side effects of current prescription painkillers. Their secret? Starting from scratch -- with computational techniques that let them explore more than four trillion different chemical interactions.

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