Researchers develop safer opioid painkiller from scratch

Brian Shoichet, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, is co-senior author of a study published in Nature that used the newly deciphered atomic structure of the brain’s “morphine receptor” to custom engineer a novel drug candidate that blocked pain as effectively as morphine in mouse experiments but did not share the potentially deadly side effects typical of opioid drugs.

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Researchers develop safer opioid painkiller from scratch

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