Most chemical compouds are still unknown to science. How many new ones can we make by combining elements from the periodic table? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Fentanyl is a synthetic drug. That means it’s not created from plants like marijuana or cocaine, but rather entirely from chemicals. Fentanyl can be easy to make using compounds known as “precursors.” ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)—One of the big hurdles in bringing drugs to market is the difficulty of producing large enough quantities of potential compounds to conduct clinical trials. This is particularly true ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 23 And yet a look at drugs that have made it into the clinic reveals that the pharmaceutical industry has explored only a fraction of that ...

Researchers have developed experimental compounds that make cells burn more calories by subtly tweaking how mitochondria ...