Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

Two American scientists and a French scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for developing the so-called metathesis reaction, in which two pairs of bonds between carbon atoms trade ...

A team of researchers at IOCB Prague headed by Dr. Tomáš Slanina has developed a new method for labeling molecules with ...

New research shows how click chemistry can be used to more efficiently deliver drugs to treat tumors in large dogs with bone cancer -- a process that had previously only been successful in small mice.

To man through most of history, the mind has seemed too marvelous to be made up of mere matter. Yet it obviously consists of some arrangement of molecules in the brain that work collectively to ...

THE topics discussed in this book have been “offered during the past five years to medical and graduate students in Yale University as a part of the course in physiology”. The lectures have been ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2023 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) invites everyone to join it in celebration of chemistry’s biggest “holiday,” National Chemistry Week (NCW), from Sunday, Oct. 15, to ...

Civil War-era medicine could cure you — or kill you. That’s what Susan Sutheimer’s first-year General Chemistry II class found out when it studied the contents of a doctor’s bag that was used around ...

A team of researchers from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague has developed a novel method to enhance the ...

In 2021, immigrants have kept doing what they have done for years—winning Nobel Prizes. Three of the four American winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in physics, medicine and chemistry were immigrants ...

Although medical researchers still do not agree on the origin of Parkinson’s disease, there is no doubt that the immediate cause is damage to cells in a little-known part of the brain. Because of this ...