A study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry presents a new family of candidate compounds for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and pain, which have shown promising effects in animal ...

A new chemical compound has shown promise for treating Alzheimer's disease. Its effects in a rat model of the disease were ...

Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these compounds ...

A team of researchers at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in Brazil has developed a new chemical compound with the ...

Talk about twisted science! This year, chemists reached new heights of knottiness with “perplexanes,” entangled molecules with fiendishly complex topology (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, DOI: ...

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

Natural gas—one of the planet's most abundant energy sources—is primarily composed of methane, ethane, and propane. While it ...

In 2019, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did something unusual in modern medicine—they found a new antibiotic, halicin. In May this year another team found a second ...