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 ...

Inside your body, countless processes are happening every second to keep you alive. Among them is a little-known but powerful ...

The sea cucumber has been found to naturally produce a sugary compound that inhibits an enzyme instrumental in facilitating ...

A research team led by Rice University has introduced an innovative strategy that uses enzymes to convert one terpenoid ...

A sugar in sea cucumbers may block a cancer-linked enzyme without affecting blood clotting or requiring pig-based drugs.

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company driven by generative artificial intelligence (AI), today announces the development of novel pan-KRAS inhibitors of new chemotypes through ...

Sea cucumbers are the ocean's janitors, cleaning the seabed and recycling nutrients back into the water. But this humble ...

Having occupied a state-of-the-art building, merged the Departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, and added several recent faculty, the research activity of the medicinal chemistry program is ...