Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have uncovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound linked to anti-cancer ...

CBD and THC kill ovarian cancer cells at doses that largely spare normal cells, disrupting survival pathways through multiple ...

Elements and Compounds: Understanding elements and compounds is basic knowledge to study chemistry. Elements are the basic building blocks of matter, while compounds are substances formed when two or ...

Scientists don’t know the limits of chemical space—the collection of all possible molecules—but a new analysis concludes chemists have discovered new compounds in that space at an exponential rate ...

Polyphenols are a category of plant compounds. Regularly consuming polyphenols is thought to boost digestion and brain health and protect against heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even certain ...

When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of ...