Free radicals are highly unstable and reactive molecules that are literally stealing electrons from your healthy cells at this very moment, causing damage that accumulates over time and contributes to ...

Free radicals are a hot topic in wellness, but because of their ominous name – “radical” certainly sounds alarming – a lot of people misunderstand them, their complex role in our bodies and how to ...

One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an unpaired electron, free radicals may be familiar to you; these are the ...

Free radicals have a terrible reputation. These reactive and unstable molecules have been associated with cancer, aging, and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Yet the body constantly produces ...

Dr. Gino DiLabio and doctoral student Hossein Khalilian discuss their research paper about how quantum Coulombic interactions can manage and prevent unwanted cell damage from free radicals. The image ...

The free radical theory of aging is back in play after falling out of favor decades ago. (Remember when people were taking massive doses of various vitamins and minerals? Mopping up free radicals with ...

You wouldn’t think that a paper published in 1900 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society with a rather unimposing title, An Instance of Trivalent Carbon: Triphenylmethyl, would have a huge ...