“Aspirin has a tendency to crystallize with an unusual intergrown structure. The same single ... because each polymorph of a compound is viewed as a separate patentable substance.

Aspirin may be one of Western medicine’s ... The German chemist Johann Büchner isolated a promising compound in the 1820s, although it wasn’t chemically stable yet. He named the yellow ...

A new study, published by PLOS ONE, has discovered that a breakdown product of aspirin interacts with ... versions of salicylic acid and two compounds extracted from the licorice plant, where ...

The aspirin compound also shrank human colon cancer ... the CCNY team preserved the aspirin chemical structure, but added to it two new chemical groups. One of these groups releases nitric oxide ...

The humble aspirin may soon have a new role. Scientists have developed a new aspirin compound that has great promise to be, not only an extremely potent cancer-fighter, but even safer than the ...

Aspirin-like compounds (salicylates) can claim another health benefit: increasing the amount of insulin produced by otherwise healthy obese people. Obesity is associated with insulin resistance ...