Researchers have investigated a medicinal clay that was "highly prized" as a therapeutic for various ailments in antiquity.

A team of chemists has unveiled a novel method to simplify the synthesis of piperidines, a key structural component in many pharmaceuticals. The study combines biocatalytic carbon-hydrogen oxidation ...

But its invention also has a local connection: in 1884, Montreal chemist Marcellus Gilmore Edson filed a patent for the ...

Two machine learning algorithms can determine whether a whiskey is of American or Scotch origin and identify its strongest ...

We are taking cross-sector action in writing to government ministers, as the UK urgently needs a strategic, joined-up approach, led by central Government, for the use and management of materials in ...

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Plenary Lectures presented at the International Symposium on Pharmaceutical Chemistry held in Florence, 17–19 September 1962. (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in conjunction ...

Neanderthals extracted resin with advanced techniques, as shown by a 60,000-year-old pit in Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar, ...

Philipp Klahn, Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Inspired by nature’s design, Philipp Klahn’s research focuses on the synthesis of bioactive molecules and drugs, with a ...

This would make it the earliest evidence for the use of Ephedra as a medicinal food. Dr Louise Humphrey is a Research Leader in human evolution at the Natural History Museum and an expert in ancient ...

The applicants must perform research in the areas of organic chemistry, synthetic methodology, total synthesis, medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry and chemical biology. Accept & Close The ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...