“The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is ...

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They've provided treatments for a wide range of ...

In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make ...

Treated particles of graphene derived from carbon nanotubes have demonstrated remarkable potential as life-saving antioxidants, but as small as they are, something even smaller had to be created to ...

Arrayjet, a leading provider of inkjet liquid-handling solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Chemspace, the largest online catalogue of small molecules and biologics, to augment and ...

Scientists have developed a new molecule that breaks down beta-amyloid plaques by binding to excess copper in the brain. The ...

A key molecule for life may have formed in the cold, far-reaches of space, alongside budding stars and planets. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, making them vital for life on Earth.