A path to safer painkillers – revealed by freezing opioids and their protein receptors in motion
Michelle Boston
With near-atomic precision, a USC Dornsife team of scientists visualized for the first time how opioids such as loperamide and the antidote naloxone engage a key brain receptor, offering insight that could lead to better pain treatments and improved overdose reversal. The post A path to safer painkillers – revealed by freezing opioids and their protein receptors in motion appeared first on USC Dornsife .