Software screens virtual multi-component reaction products which can be rapidly synthesized and undergo a reality check by physical screening

Lipid chain length could explain why some pathogens trigger an immune response while others evade immune recognition

Receptor cheaply and quickly sensing folate anions in water could help determine the anticancer role of folic acid

Scientists develop the most advanced computer model to-date of the scattering of polarized light from chiral molecules

Biological nitrogen fixation catalyzed by nitrogenase could rival the Haber–Bosch process according to US researchers

Noble-metal-free catalyst outperforms conventional propane dehydrogenation catalysts even at low temperatures

A more practical and efficient total synthesis of antimicrobial (–)-nakadomarin A has been described

German researchers unravel a long-standing puzzle about the structure of spheroidene in the photosynthetic purple bacteria

Closely related microRNAs can be detected selectively with new 5' quinolone cap

A pharmacologically active antagonist of the two-pore-domain potassium ion channel could help treat depression