Doctoral students have described a new selective biocatalyst in an interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration. The ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious ...

New biocatalysts can produce useful epoxides from harmful styrene, and do this so selectively that only the desired compounds ...

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

This process shows high selectivity of up to 92% and a yield of 82%. The produced cyclopentene can be recycled back into ...

Penn-led researchers have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound. After isolating a new class of ...

The mystery deepened in the 1970s when a team of scientists entered the tomb of Polish king Casimir IV. Within weeks, 10 out ...

The article indicates that the sudden appearance (or disappearance?) of polymorphs can derail clinical programmes. Such an ...

In the 1970s, a dozen scientists entered the tomb of Casimir IV in Poland. Within weeks, 10 of them died from Aspergillus ...