A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

The medicinal chemistry and drug design program at UC Davis provides a strong foundation in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. The major focuses on design principles and experimental methods ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

Candida auris is a dangerous fungal pathogen that has become a global health concern. It spreads easily in health care settings and can cause life-threatening infections, especially in patients with ...

Chemistry falls under the umbrella of natural sciences, alongside other fields like biology, geology and physics. Chemistry ...

Given the variability between labs and the unique nature of R&D work, custom, niche AI tools are going to become much more ...

"Medicinal chemistry involves working in teams with scientists from a variety of other disciplines," says James Kaminski, a senior principal scientist at Schering Plough. "There is a lot of ...

In 1993, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (JMC) published similar numbers of papers by chemists working in industry and by those in academia. Three decades on, the figures have changed ...

Aberrations in fibroblast growth factor receptors FGFR2/3 are major drivers of many cancers—including intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, endometrial ...

For years, developing selective FGFE2/3 inhibitors has been hindered by the extreme structural similarity among FGFR family members, leading to toxicities and resistance with current therapies.

Rihanna Myrie's graduation Saturday is the bookend to a chapter of her life marked by abuse, loss and homelessness.