Chemists want to trick cancer cells into taking up drug molecules by attaching the payloads to fatty acids. These cells grow rapidly compared to normal cells and they recognize fatty acids as ...

How did you discover MCBAs? Bile acids were first described chemically in 1849, and Heinrich Wieland was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1927 for comprehensively describing their chemistry. This description ...

Conjugates between polyamines and hydroxycinnamic acids are found on the pollen surface of all higher plants, both mono- and dicots. But we don’t know why they are there. Delporte et al. (2018) have ...

Some people claim that conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a type of fatty acid, can be taken as a supplement to aid weight loss. However, human studies have not proved its efficacy or safety. Animal ...