Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Among the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds produced by plants, some may hold the key to treating human ailments and diseases. But recreating these complex, naturally occurring molecules in ...

“For the first time, this strategy allows us to efficiently and precisely create a structural motif that was previously difficult to access,” says Friedmann. Specifically, the chemists have discovered ...