A drug commonly used to treat epilepsy could be repurposed to significantly boost the response to vaccines in humans, helping protect those for whom the vaccine is less effective, such as older adults ...

Repurposing and repositioning have gained considerable attention from a range of stakeholders, including NIH, academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and even some technology companies, for ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently launched a drug repurposing initiative that may signal a shift in how ...

Drug repurposing identifies new uses for existing medicines, including approved drugs as well as investigational drugs that have demonstrated favourable pharmaceutical properties and human safety.

The quest to prolong life has gone on for as long as human existence itself, from the mythical Fountain of Youth to quick-fix ...

Americans pay a lot of money for prescription medications. In 2023, spending on prescription drugs in the United States topped $722 billion, a trend that's expected to continue. Yet, nearly 30% ...

Baritinib is a drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis. After outbreak of COVID-19, Benevolent AI Company discovered that AAK1 is a regulatory factor in the process of SARS-CoC-2 infection by generating a ...

Old drugs, new ideas. That’s one of the core drivers of using artificial intelligence (AI) for drug development. Researchers using complex AI-fueled methods are now taking aim at what has become a ...

Drug repurposing shows promise in the treatment of retinal degenerations, according to a new study. A combination treatment incorporating three existing drugs -- tamsulosin, metoprolol and ...

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers screened ReFRAME (short for repurposing, focused rescue, and accelerated Medchem), a drug-repurposing library, for drugs against ...

Every other month, researchers find new uses for GLP-1 agonist drugs, like Mounjaro and Ozempic — now even as a treatment for ...