When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched carbon structures—points where the molecular chain forks in a specific direction ...

Natural products have historically served as a vital source of chemotherapeutic agents, laying the foundation for many standard-of-care drugs. However, the ...

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

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 ...

A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has used artificial intelligence to ...

Researchers bio-engineered a tobacco plant to produce five key psychedelic compounds for therapeutic use.

Professor Gyu Rie Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences successfully designed artificial proteins that selectively ...