Research Articles
The Silent Language of Cells: Decoding Metabolites to Unlock Your Body's Secrets
Discover how measuring metabolites provides a real-time snapshot of your health, revolutionizing disease diagnosis and personalized medicine.
Fungal Gold: Robert Cichewicz's Quest to Unearth Nature's Hidden Chemical Treasures
Explore how natural products chemist Robert Cichewicz is discovering groundbreaking compounds from fungi with applications from medicine to odor neutralization.
Nature's Soothing Touch: Can Ancient Remedies Calm Modern Skin Woes?
Exploring the science behind how natural products like curcumin and resveratrol fight inflammatory skin diseases through modern molecular research.
The Secret Strength of Leather: Unraveling Nature's Molecular Rope Bridge
Discover how neutron scattering reveals the molecular architecture that makes leather so durable through natural and artificial cross-linking processes.
The Hidden Treasures of the Deep: Bengamides and Bengazoles from Marine Sponges
Exploring the chemistry and biology of bengamides and bengazoles, bioactive compounds from Jaspis sponges with therapeutic potential against cancer and antibiotic-resistant infections.
The Secret Social Networks of Microbes: How Tiny Organisms Talk, Cooperate, and Wage War
Discover how microbes communicate through chemical signaling, their impact on health and environment, and the groundbreaking research revealing their secret social networks.
Desert Gold: How the Humble Jojoba Bush Could Fuel the Future
Discover how the resilient jojoba plant from the Sonoran Desert is being transformed into clean-burning biodiesel through organic chemistry.
The Cancer-Fighting Supermolecule: Designing a Hybrid Warrior in the Lab
Explore how scientists design naphthoquinone-triazole anticancer derivatives by combining natural toxins with modern chemistry for targeted cancer therapy.
Breaking the Methane Barrier: Homogeneous Catalysis Unlocks Nature's Gas Giant
Recent advances in homogeneous catalysis are rewriting the rules of methane functionalization, offering promising pathways to transform this reluctant molecule under mild conditions.
Ordering Life's Tapestry: The Evolution of Biological Classification
Explore the fascinating history of biological classification from Aristotle to modern genomics and how our understanding of life's diversity has evolved.