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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — A professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington School of Medicine has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor David Baker won the prize for his work on ...

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 ...

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 ...