WASHINGTON - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of ...

AI models are able to design molecules that don’t even exist in nature. Some have proven effective as snake antivenom.

Researchers at the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI), led by Kathrin Breuker, ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Supramolecular chemistry is the study ... the complexity and diversity of their structure and function. Now, a series of isomeric pillar-layered metal–organic frameworks with tunable topologies ...

Wen Shuhao helped speed up the development of Pfizer’s Covid oral drug, Paxlovid. Now the chairman of Xtalpi wants to help ...

Monoclonal antibodies, or mAbs, are important tools in medicine. These laboratory-made proteins are widely used in treatments ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy ...

These insights could drive the development of new drugs to treat transthyretin amyloidosis, a progressive and fatal disease.