By the middle of 2020 millions of people had been infected with a virus which causes a disease known as COVID-19 and hundreds of thousan...

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Triglycerides are found in the fats and oils you eat. They are produced in a condensation reaction between a glycerol and 3 fatty acids. So,...

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Three men, James Dewey Watson,  Francis Harry Compton Crick and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, shared the The Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

Do you want to answer any of the questions listed below: What is a fatty acid? What are the structures and formulae of common fatty acids...

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair...

Artificial sweeteners,  especially aspartame, have hit the news headlines once again with PepsiCo's decision to start selling Diet Pepsi...

Some fats, such as polyunsaturated fats, are thought to be good for us. They lower the "bad" type of cholesterol which has ...

In 2013, medical researchers found a molecule that fights cancer in animals by boosting the cell's production of a powerful natural anti...

Before you take that nurofen, advil, motrin,brufen, or one of the many other trade-names for ibuprofen, why not learn something about its ch...

In June 2013, a young man in Queensland died as a result of drinking homemade liquor. It is believed that the liquor contained a toxic level...

Scientists have a discovered that a small molecule, natriuretic polypeptide b (Nppb), is responsible for that itchy feeling in mice. When na...

Wasps are a major killer of fruit flies. They inject their eggs inside fruit fly larvae, then, when the wasp egg hatches, the wasp larva sta...