Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs is not keeping up. In response, laboratories are handing a growing share of ...

Christmas means different things to different people. For me, it's an opportunity to eat celebratory foods that aren't ...

William Lipscomb was raised in Lexington and graduated from the University of Kentucky before becoming a chemistry professor and researcher.

The cuts complicate America's efforts to push its agenda in a region that has faced military coups and devastating conflicts.

Researchers have developed new drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn more calories.

People with higher blood levels of certain manufactured compounds that persist in the environment are more likely to be ...

Opioid receptors are a subset of G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs). These membrane proteins transmit signals into the cell ...

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

Scientists at Ames National Laboratory, in collaboration with Indranil Das's group at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

From mixed charges to chemical bonding, Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that iron uses multiple strategies to lock carbon ...

In tests in human cancer cells, a derivative of verticillin A showed particular promise against a type of pediatric brain cancer called diffuse midline glioma. Credit: MIT News; figure courtesy of the ...