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Designing the ideal opioid

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The development of a drug that mimics the pain-relieving activity of opioid compounds, but has fewer side effects, points to an effective strategy for the discovery of many types of drug. See Article p.185

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Figure 1: New biology for an old receptor.

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Kieffer, B. Designing the ideal opioid. Nature 537, 170–171 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19424

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