Osaka Metropolitan University researchers investigated the changes that occur in the livers of mice when aldehydes are rapidly produced in the body. Researchers have identified the mechanism by which ...

Histones are crosslinked with DNA (histone-DPC) following formaldehyde exposure, leading to the malfunction of cellular processes such as transcription. A team of researchers at Nagoya University in ...

Researchers have resolved a problem that has limited the environmental sustainability of peracid synthesis. By judicious choice of the solvent and light input, approximately room-temperature ...

Converting a mixture of mirror-image forms, or stereoisomers, of a molecule into a single isomer is a big deal in making pharmaceuticals, because usually only one isomer is useful as a drug. But ...

Ethyl methylphenylglycidate is an aromatic organic compound with two functional groups, an ester and an epoxide. It is also known as “strawberry aldehyde” even though it is not found in strawberries ...

At every party, no matter the occasion, my drink of choice is soda water with lime. I have never, not once, been drunk—or even finished a full serving of alcohol. The single time I came close to doing ...

Transforming an aldehyde into a carboxyl group can fine-tune feathers from red to yellow But how psittacofulvin pigments shift shades was unclear. An enzyme called ALDH3A2 alters the chemical ...