Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal.

Scientists are taking a closer look at monk fruit and discovering it’s more than just a sugar substitute. New research shows ...

Researchers who manipulate lignin, a molecular fiber that allows plants to grow tall and transport water, unexpectedly discovered its synthesis has more far-reaching effects on plant development than ...

Fungal infections kill millions of people each year, and modern medicine is struggling to keep up. But researchers at McMaster University have identified a molecule that may help turn the tide — ...

Most chemical compouds are still unknown to science. How many new ones can we make by combining elements from the periodic table? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant ...

"This is a completely novel chemical entity that was not found in nature," says Mike Varney, a computational chemist at San Diego-based Agouron. "It is not a biotechnology product. It is not a product ...

While cannabis has been used for thousands of years, scientists are still identifying many of the chemical components of the plant. According to a 2021 study published in Advances in Experimental ...

This is because the beetle can break down the plant-derived compounds (phenolic glucosides) via a water-mediated process ...