UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids—the building blocks of ...

Researchers have devised a new technique -- using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick -- to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first direct images of ...

A new method for learning the structures of small molecules, such as hormones, is 'like science fiction.' In a new study that one scientist called jaw-dropping, a joint UCLA/Caltech team has shown ...

For the origin of life on Earth, ancient puddles or coastlines may have had a major ripple effect. A new study shows that a simple class of molecules called alpha hydroxy acids forms microdroplets ...

Chemists are constantly tasked not just with designing useful new molecules — for novel drugs, energy-storing materials and countless other jobs — but with designing better ways to make those ...

Efforts to build a better digital “nose” suggest that our perception of scents reflects both the structure of aromatic molecules and the metabolic processes that make them. Alex Wiltschko began ...

Honghui Hu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property considers the impact of the structure-activity relationship on the inventiveness assessment of pharmaceutical compounds Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH ...