By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory ...

Scientists didn’t know heroin’s chemical structure when the drug was legally available. Take a close look at Wright’s 1874 paper- the first report of human-made heroin.

The U-M team suspected that certain fentalogs could potentially be used as antidotes to fentanyl, much in the way that naloxone, which has a chemical structure very close to morphine, is an ...

Erik Sorensen , the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry at Princeton, says that the creation of compounds like the one synthesized in Castle's lab are challenging objectives for ...

Researchers have identified a drug candidate that is as effective as morphine for relieving pain, but without the harmful side effects of opioids.

Opioids are a class of drugs naturally found in the opium poppy plant.

Morphine is an alkaloid, a class of compounds characterized by a ringed molecular structure incorporating a bit of nitrogen.

Morphine chemical structure is similar to endorphins, chemicals in the brain that influence our mood and perception of pain. Morphine binds to endorphin-receptor sending signal that there is ...

This study presents the structure of fentanyl-bound μOR for the first time and reveals the specific fentanyl-binding mode compared with that of morphine.

Neutrally-charged morphine undergoes a chemical reaction in water to become a positively-charged, biochemically active compound. Aaron Harrison, CC BY-ND This positively charged structure is the ...

Your techniques have to be versatile enough to deviate from the plan.' As for the compound's future as a kinder, gentler morphine, Jones said he and his colleagues are cautiously optimistic.