Canadians learned how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer as a ...

A new method to capture carbon dioxide from the air has been developed at the University of Helsinki's chemistry department.

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

Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and ...

Researchers have used a cutting-edge robotic system capable of synthesizing hundreds of metal complexes to develop a possible ...

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

Since the 1960s, the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine has piqued interest as a potential treatment for opioid addiction, fueled by limited experimental evidence and anecdotal claims by those who claim ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Laboratory studies have found that a combination of THC and CBD can kill ovarian cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Researchers are exploring whether future cancer treatments could be ...