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

Compounds in dark sweet cherries were studied for effects on aggressive breast cancer. Researchers tested both prevention and ...

An international team has found a family of natural compounds with potential as new and more effective treatments for parasitic worms. The compounds stall the unique metabolic process that worms use ...

When you walk by someone smoking cannabis, the smell is unmistakable. The compounds that produce the potent smell of weed fall under the same class of compounds that produce the citrusy smell of ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Literally everything around us is made up of chemicals. That includes all foods. And the different kinds of chemicals they contain give the stuff ...

Elements and Compounds Examples: This article explains the definition of elements and compounds, their characteristics, differences, and examples. Read this to understand these terms better.

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 ...