AI chemist figures out how to legally clone expensive patented drugs
Pharma firms protect their drugs with hundreds of complex patents but an AI called Chematica can find workarounds, which could potentially make drugs cheaper
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From the archives: this is your brain on ecstasy, 30 years ago
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People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week
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Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo
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Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction
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Opioid crisis: powerful but non-addictive drug could replace morphine
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Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK
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Cracking down on illegal cannabis with edible barcodes and blockchains
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An exclusive look inside the UK’s legal medical cannabis farm
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Medical cannabis: What you really need to know
The UK looks set to become the latest place to legalise medical cannabis. But with its use sweeping the world, many questions remain about what it does and how
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Apple peel drug makes mice live longer by targeting a cause of ageing
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Heroin users’ brains hint at a new treatment for narcolepsy
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We must try harder to avoid biological bias in clinical trials
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First cannabis-based drug approved in the US to treat epilepsy
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