N. V. Chandrasekharan, Hu Dai, K. Lamar Turepu Roos, Nathan K. Evanson, Joshua Tomsik, Terry S. Elton, Daniel L. Simmons Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Brigham Young University today announced an agreement to license patent-pending biotechnology to pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Inc., which has also agreed to fund further research by BYU ...

Acetaminophen poses a pain-relief puzzle. Despite sharing some properties with conventional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin, it doesn't inhibit cyclooxygenase (Cox) -1 or -2.

The discovery of cyclooxygenase (COX) isoforms, COX-1 and COX-2, in the early 1990s helped explain how non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) work and led to specific agents with fewer ...

If a medication does its job safely, regulators may approve it even if nobody knows how it works. That’s been the case for acetaminophen, commonly sold as Tylenol. A team of scientists at Brigham ...