You probably know smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and being exposed to pollution can contribute to aging and disease. But have you ever wondered why? The answer, in part, can be explained by ...

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 ...

Environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) are stable radical species that form on particulate matter surfaces during combustion or thermal processes. Their prolonged lifetimes enable long-range ...

Reactive oxygen molecules, also known as "free radicals", are generally considered harmful. However as it now turns out, they control cellular processes, which are important for the brain's ability to ...

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 ...

COVID-19 infections trigger widespread oxidative damage, says new research by scientists from the Baylor College of Medicine. Findings from the study (that involved 60 COVID-19 patients) revealed that ...