Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

“The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is ...

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 ...

As drug-resistant infections continue to rise, researchers are looking for new antimicrobial strategies that are both ...

Purpose: The chemical interactions that cause drug incompatibility in solutions, with emphasis on the acid-base and ionized-nonionized forms of organic, weak, electrolyte drugs, are examined. Summary: ...

There’s no better time than now to establish green chemistry as the method of choice for manufacturing drugs to combat widespread disease in low-income countries. Not only does the green chemistry ...

Discover how AI and agentic workflows help chemists accelerate drug design, generate hypotheses, and analyze data in real ...

Copper is not new to medicine, having been used in infection-fighting nanoparticles and implants, among many other innovations. However, it hasn’t quite been used in the way some chemists from the ...

Some of you screwballs out there have been complaining that I'm not giving enough chemistry lessons. Be careful what you ask for. Here are a chemistry AND a biochemistry lesson about aspirin and ...

“Drugs currently on the market to treat hypertension work on the blood vessels by either dilating them, reducing pressure in them by eliminating salt and water or slowing down the heart rate,” said ...

CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio — Drug overdose deaths are declining but they are still the leading cause of accidental deaths in Cuyahoga County and across the United States. Now a new program at the Cuyahoga ...