For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

Insilico Medicine has developed a new class of small molecule inhibitors targeting diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGKα) designed to restore T cell function and overcome resistance to immune checkpoint ...

A group of young students became bonafide biomedical scientists before they even started high school. Through a partnership with a nearby university, the middle schoolers collected and analyzed ...

The senior has received a fall research award from Bowdoin to dive deeper into her ongoing project looking at whether a ...

Scientists have coaxed one of the universe’s most stubborn elements into a new compound. Formed under intense pressures, the newly discovered compound packs helium atoms into crystalline iron, ...

The company says its AI and synthetic biology platform can produce compounds not possible with traditional synthesis ...

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

New research reveals that a compound in dark chocolate called theobromine may slow biological aging in adults, but experts ...

People are occasionally exposed to potentially harmful substances in the environment or through their diets or habits. For example, a compound found in cigarette and industrial smoke, benzo(a)pyrene ...

History is full of people who did not give up at the first refusal and continued to fight for the common good. Gertrude Elion ...