A series of compounds featuring fused six-membered silicon rings represents a step up in complexity for the class of structures known as ‘ladder molecules’. The team that created them states that the ...

India’s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturers are showing financial resilience despite facing steep pricing ...

Scientists identified the mechanism by which a sea cucumber molecule inhibits sulfatase-2, an enzyme that’s often upregulated ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

Researchers discovered how to flip the structure of complex drug compounds using a simple reagent, offering a game-changing ...

Controlling regioselectivity remains one of the major challenges in hydrocyanation. When an unsymmetrical alkyne undergoes this reaction, it typically yields a mixture of regioisomers. This ...

In modern devices, such as phone screens or advanced sensors, light is often generated by pairs of organic molecules, where one molecule, known as ...

The hunt for a medical breakthrough has been caught up in the Trump administration's political assault on the university.

An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory. But how do memories last when the molecules that ...

A team led by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found a new method to separate right- ...

The real-time dynamics of soliton molecules (bound solitons) have been extensively studied in mode-locked lasers by virtue of the emergence of fast detection techniques. Here, a new type of symmetric ...

Antenna complex articles from across Nature Portfolio The antenna complex is a light-harvesting membrane-associated aggregate of proteins and photosensitive pigments such as chlorophyll and ...