The substances have been used by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years, but they've recently become popular as possible ...

Animal and human studies suggest a natural compound found in dark chocolate, theobromine, influences multiple factors linked ...

Chronic inflammation often works quietly in the background but can fuel serious diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and ...

A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has used artificial intelligence to ...

Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat ...

When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched carbon structures—points where the molecular chain forks in a specific direction ...

Researchers bio-engineered a tobacco plant to produce five key psychedelic compounds for therapeutic use.

When you walk by someone smoking cannabis, the smell is unmistakable. The compounds that produce the potent smell of weed fall under the same class of compounds that produce the citrusy smell of ...

An international team has found a family of natural compounds with potential as new and more effective treatments for parasitic worms. The compounds stall the unique metabolic process that worms use ...