A new 'crystalline sponge' for drug discovery: APF-80 illuminates materials design

Many natural compounds that act on the human body provide active ingredients for medicines or clues for developing them, and ...

Simultaneous packing structures in superionic water may explain ice giant magnetic fields

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...
Science Daily

This sweet fruit is packed with hidden health compounds

Scientists are taking a closer look at monk fruit and discovering it’s more than just a sugar substitute. New research shows ...

Schizophrenia-linked genetic variant renders brain receptor unresponsive to both natural and therapeutic compounds

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...
Nature

Banking on South Korea’s chemical libraries

The tireless pursuit of treatments for the plethora of diseases humans face today, from painkillers and antibiotics to anti-cancer drugs, has created a mountain of data on countless chemical and ...
Nature

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Tailoring polarization homogeneity in discontinuous-columnar Bi(Fe,Mn)O 3 thin films via dislocation engineering with controlled self-assembly Controlled dislocation self-assembly is demonstrated in ...