Scripps Research scientists have developed a new class of drug compounds that reduce harmful inflammation while leaving the ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward protecting the very cells that make sharp, colorful vision possible. By testing ...

Scripps Research scientists have developed a new class of drug compounds that reduce harmful inflammation while leaving the ...

Compound libraries are curated collections of chemical molecules used in drug discovery. A range of screening collections, ...

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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 ...

There are currently dozens of different molecules and compounds at trial stage, as scientists across the globe search for the knockout anti-aging drug, but most have a common thread: finding a way to ...

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science report engineering a single tobacco plant to produce five ...

You may have noticed that the rock formations are very different colors. The rock formations on the left are from Red Rock State Park in Texas, and on the right is El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite ...

People have different tastes. It turns out that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish do too. These soft-bodied cephalopods have proteins on suckers along their tentacles that allow them to “taste” by ...