The midwestern state has quietly laid the groundwork for a biotech hub.

The East Coast campus of the research institute received shipments of freeze-dried or frozen samples of more than 210,000 microbial strains, which scientists plan to mine for potentially useful natural products.

The pharmaceutical industry is looking to machine learning to overcome complex challenges in drug development.

Renewed interest from the biotech industry sparks hope for drugging the nucleic acid to treat cancer and other conditions.

Studying cone snail venom has yielded novel pain pathways, but the peptides that function as toxins are difficult to translate into drugs.

Venomous centipedes may harbor a clue to the creation of a successful pain-killing compound for humans.

Arachnids harbor a plentiful array of molecules that target mammalian pain receptors.

In tiny doses, the pufferfish’s tetrodotoxin can be turned into a pain-relieving ion channel blocker.

Compounds in the arachnids’ venom interact with ion channels to both cause and block pain.