Learning from nature’s bounty: New libraries for drug discovery
Natural products, or their close derivatives, make some of our most potent medicines, among which macrocycles with their large carbon-rich […]
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Researchers from Japan have developed a new polysulfide donor: a chemical compound composed of chains of sulfur atoms that can […] The sugar maple tree yields autumn foliage, maple syrup and Tennessee whiskey. Wood from the tree is chopped into planks, […] In a single sneeze or a cough, as many as 40,000 tiny droplets are forcibly propelled from our mouth and […] A team of physicists at the Institut Lumière Matière (CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1), in collaboration with the Cancer Research […] A measurable criterion now exists for determining the age rating of films. A group of scientists at the Max Planck […] The small intestine is a hotbed of microbial activity and a target of probiotic treatments for diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease […] Bacteria are master engineers of small, biologically useful molecules. A new study in Nature Communications has revealed one of the […] The life-threatening bacteria called MRSA can cripple a hospital since it spreads quickly and is resistant to treatment. But scientists […] A new chemical compound with the potential to destroy hard-to-treat cancer cells has been developed and tested by scientists at […]
Polysulfide donors strongly suppress inflammatory responses
Understanding what makes Tennessee whiskey unique
Effectively collecting tiny droplets for biomedical analysis and beyond
Physics can show us the inside of tumors
Rating movies based on fear pheromones in the cinema
Protecting probiotics from the stomach
Unusual biosynthetic pathway offers a key to future natural product discovery
Weaponizing oxygen to kill infections and disease
Compound discovered that targets cancer cells lacking the protective p53 ‘guardian gene’
