Biosensor advances drug discovery
Researchers developed a sensor that can detect drugs with hallucinogenic effects and identified a psychedelic-related drug with antidepressant-like effects that wasn’t hallucinogenic. The sensor could help to identify potential drugs of abuse as well as useful therapeutics. Many psychiatric drugs target the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) in neurons. These include psychedelics such as lysergic acid …