What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of Dec. 16, 2021

Thu, 16 Dec 2021
Researchers create synthetic version of scarce compound found in poppies

Simple process uses noscapine to produce setigerumine

Chemists at Rice University, partially funded by the U.S. National Science …

Thu, 16 Dec 2021
Promising anti-melanoma properties discovered in a sea squirt

Study brings advances for Antarctic science and natural products chemistry

Few places are farther from the medicine cabinet than the tissues of an ascidian, or “sea squirt,” on the icy Antarctic seafloor — but that’s exactly where scientists are looking to find a new treatment for melanoma, one of the most dangerous types of skin …