Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread across the world in 2020, causing an ongoing global pandemic that has killed over 6.2 million people. For most of the duration of the pandemic, healthcare ...

A new study led by University of California, Irvine researchers developed a high-throughput screen methodology to identify compounds affect a key G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) rhodopsin (Rh).

While once considered taboo, magic mushrooms have recently experienced an increase in popularity and social acceptance. This renaissance partly stems from new findings about the impact of ...

A truck carrying fracking wastewater at an injection well in Morrow County, Ohio owned by Knox Brine Disposal in October 2015. Fracking began in Pennsylvania more than 15 years ago, and there is ...

Researchers of the Li Lab, led by Prof. Sijin Li, chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently developed a new yeast-based screening method to identify key enzymes that synthesize medicinal ...

Novel pharmaceutical discovery and development is an expensive, difficult, and inefficient process, primarily due to the lack of models that accurately present the appropriate condition or that ...

A molecule praised for slowing aging may also give cancer cells exactly what they need to grow.

In a correspondence published in Current Biology, researchers have identified three active compounds in sex pheromones produced by virgin queens of the species Vespa mandarinia, the world's largest ...

Firmenich International has filed a patent for methods to identify compounds enhancing kokumi taste by modulating the T1R1/T1R3 taste receptor. The patent also covers the use of these compounds in ...