Ibogaine—a psychoactive plant derivative—has attracted attention for its anti-addictive and anti-depressant properties. But ...

Researchers have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

While some of the initial zeal around localized vaccine production in Africa has waned since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to bolster the continent’s immunization autonomy—especially | ...

By inhibiting the COX pathway, aspirin diverts arachidonic acid metabolites to the LO pathway ... along with an increase in the synthesis of cysteinyl leukotrienes (LTs). Evidence suggests ...

EVA Pharma of Africa, DNA Script and Quantoom Biosciences have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the first digital-to-biologics, end-to-end mRNA production platform in Egypt. It ...

Here, the authors report a chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric trifunctionalization ... 1-aryl-2-alkyl alkenes and α-alkenes for the synthesis of chain elongated internal alkenes.

The optimized formulation is composed of a lipid phase incorporating beeswax (75 mg), oleic acid (25 mg), and Span 60 (1% w/w), and an aqueous phase comprised of 1% w/w Tween 80, pH 12.5. The selected ...