How Do Drugs Know Where To Go in the Body? - The Wire Science


6/27/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Tom Allinson and Imane Mellouk

Researchers can chemically modify drug molecules to make sure that they bind strongly to the places we want them and weakly to the places we don’t.

A representative photo of various drugs littered on a table. Photo: Anna Shvets/Pexels When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? … [+5538 chars]

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