Drug discovery has long been criticized for its slow, costly, and failure-prone nature. Traditional approaches, particularly ...

Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

Chemical structures called cyclopropanes can increase the potency and fine-tune the properties of many drugs, but traditional methods to create this structure only work with certain molecules and ...

Researchers have developed a new family of remarkably stable chiral molecules. This work opens up new prospects for the ...

One of the greatest revolutions in the field of pain medication was the isolation of morphine from the opium poppy in the ...

Elix is a Japan-based AI drug discovery company with a mission to "Rethinking drug discovery," providing services to ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections.

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could ...

He dubbed it ortho-methyl-boc-4-AP, after its unique molecular structure. His discovery highlights how chemical suppliers and fentanyl makers try to stay a step ahead of U.S. officials by cooking ...