New Nano-Scale Device Can Weigh Individual Molecules
A gold particle five nanometers in width weighs just a few megadaltons, a tiny unit of measure used in biochemistry that is equivalent to the…
A gold particle five nanometers in width weighs just a few megadaltons, a tiny unit of measure used in biochemistry that is equivalent to the…
A team of scientists has cracked a code underlying recognition of RNA molecules by a superfamily of RNA-binding proteins called pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins, providing…
Prostaglandin class drugs are a class of hormone-like chemicals that influence processes including blood circulation and inflammation. Their use offers a way to churn out…
Using exome sequencing, a team of scientists has discovered the human gene that causes a relatively rare but devastating type of early-onset blindness, providing an…
Using DNA sequencing technologies to examine 147 melanomas originating from both sun-exposed and sun-shielded sites, a team of scientists at the Yale Cancer Center has…
A newly published report describes the new drug candidate known as phenanthriplatin, a compound that showed a different pattern of activity than that of cisplatin…
Scientists have developed “acoustic tweezers” that use sound waves to control items regardless of their optical, electrical or magnetic properties, making them noninvasive and very…
Using both X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, UCLA biochemists have examined the structure of p65 protein and its interaction with telomerase RNA. University…
By feeding algae more carbon, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory increased the microbes’ overall metabolism, resulting in increased oil production as the organisms continued…
With little known about how plants produce cocaine, biochemists at the Max Planck institute set out to better understand the process, finding that an enzyme…
Biochemists at UCLA used computer models to identify proteins that could be combined to form tiny molecular cages that are hundreds of times smaller than…
New research from the Max Planck Institute examines the role of cryptogamic covers in the global exchange of oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Covering approximately 30%…
Biochemists at the Max Planck Institute used advanced imaging technologies to successfully perform the first comprehensive analysis of the molecular structure of a yeast cell…
Scientists around the world continue to study greenhouse gas emissions and researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute discovered findings that could lead to the recycling…
RNA cataloging may take a big leap forward. A new study from the University of North Carolina describes a cost-effective technique that will help scientists…
For the first time, scientists from the University of Cambridge have created cerebral cortex cells from a sample of human skin. The scientists were able…
The online community of Foldit has helped produce solutions that have evaded scientists for years. Initially funded by DARPA, this community consists of roughly 240,000…
Chemists Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin are working on the creation of a “synthetic cell.” Their goal is to create a living organism from non-living…