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

CBD and THC kill ovarian cancer cells at doses that largely spare normal cells, disrupting survival pathways through multiple ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have uncovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound linked to anti-cancer ...

Elements and Compounds: Understanding elements and compounds is basic knowledge to study chemistry. Elements are the basic building blocks of matter, while compounds are substances formed when two or ...

Scientists don’t know the limits of chemical space—the collection of all possible molecules—but a new analysis concludes chemists have discovered new compounds in that space at an exponential rate ...

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 ...

Two hormone-like compounds linked to the consumption of soy-based foods can cause irreversible changes in the structure of the brain, resulting in early-onset puberty and symptoms of advanced ...

Ball milling liquid metal with natural plant compounds produces a black powder that purifies seawater and generates ...

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