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Antisense therapy promises to slow Huntington’s disease

13 December 2017

Drug injections into the spine sabotaged production of mutant protein that destroys brain cells

Fentanyl Citrate

Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states

13 December 2017

Nevada and Nebraska are considering using the opioid drug fentanyl to carry out death penalty executions

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