A compound that is an active ingredient in plants commonly used in Chinese medicine prevents biofilm formation on polystyrene and polycarbonate surfaces by Staphylococcus aureus. The research suggests ...

Using a compound from a centuries-old Chinese traditional medicine, a Yale University researcher has been able to prevent the formation of kidney-destroying cysts in a mouse model of polycystic kidney ...

Carbon is often referred to as "the bedrock of life" because the element appears in all known life forms. This is because the sixth entry on the periodic table has the unique ability to form the ...

The solar system’s outer planets, and many of their moons, are dominated by matter from the H–C–N–O chemical space, based on solar system abundances of hydrogen and the planetary ices H₂O, CH₄, and ...

Knocking out a certain gene or reducing its expression by using an enzyme inhibitor may provide a new avenue for treating Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, ...

Big, schmancy compounds keep popping up all over the solar system, and new research may help clear up confusion about how they form in so many places. That research is based on laboratory experiments ...

A naturally-occurring compound has been found to block a molecular process thought to underlie Parkinson's Disease, and to suppress its toxic products, scientists have reported. The findings, although ...

Analysis of organic compounds – called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs likely formed in the cold areas ...