Researchers have simplified the operation of an important class of chemical transformation: synthesis of beta-lactams, the intricate scaffold of many antibiotics. Their experimental protocol minimizes ...

Osaka, Japan – While we appear to live in a world of plenty, behind the scenes, sourcing sufficient amounts of key ingredients can be challenging. For example, the synthesis of certain antibiotics, ...

Advancements in peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis via precision chemistry are transforming therapeutic development by ...

Professor Lijia Wang's group at East China Normal University, in collaboration with Academician Yong Tang of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a ...

Researchers develop a 10-minute, two-step synthesis for amino acid Schiff base complexes using microwave irradiation and study their antibacterial properties. Schiff bases were first discovered in the ...

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has introduced a new open-source training framework that can train open large language models (LLMs) to compete with leading commercial deep research models. The technique, called ...

Oligonucleotides are short strands of DNA or RNA that play a major role in drug discovery and molecular diagnostic chip technology. They are used from initial research and screening through to target ...

The state of DNA synthesis is a bit like humanity’s journey to the moon—just because something has been achieved before doesn’t mean we should cease figuring out how to do it better.” That is how ...