Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years.

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 ...

Research appearing in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry shows for the first time SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can be inhibited from replicating in living cell cultures using a ...

When you're cooking or cleaning inside your home, what chemicals are you breathing, and are they potentially harmful? Chemists have given us a solid start on the answer. A large, collaborative ...

Efficient electrochemical hydrogenation (ECH) of organic compounds is essential for sustainability, promoting chemical feedstock circularity and synthetic fuel production. This study investigates the ...

In this interview conducted at SLAS EU 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, we spoke to Silvio Di Castro, Senior Technology Scientist at AstraZeneca, about his research, as well as the role of compound ...

Over 500 million years of evolution, arthropods have developed complex compound eyes with special visual capabilities 1. In nature, common dragonflies, fruit flies, ants, beetles, and bees have a pair ...

A German chemist, named Friedrich Wöhler, performed an experiment in the laboratory in 1828, which led to the discovery of something that became famous in the chemistry community. It involved heating ...

The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them. Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove ...