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Tackling pain and mental health with plant-based medicines

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Lastly, for treatment of substance use disorders, few pipeline drugs are currently undergoing clinical trials, yet those in trial only address the withdrawal symptoms but not the underlying reward circuitry and the cravings. RA: What advantages does a plant-based approach bring to drug development?

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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

Lu Rahman selects some recent synthetic biology innovations and the potential they hold to benefit drug discovery. . The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape.