New Approach Improves Biomass-to-Fuel Process
A newly published study describes a new approach to converting non-food-based biomass into fuels, allowing researchers to generate a range of alkanes from a variety…
A newly published study describes a new approach to converting non-food-based biomass into fuels, allowing researchers to generate a range of alkanes from a variety…
UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers have completed the first visual map of the telomerase enzyme, reporting the positions of each component of the enzyme relative…
Using a custom-built droplet network printer, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a 3D printer that can create materials with several of the…
For the first time, researchers have successfully mapped telomerase, finding that differences in the telomeric gene are associated both with the risk of various cancers…
A newly published study explores an alternate theory for the origin of RNA, achieving highly ordered self-assembly in water with small molecules that are similar…
Scientists at UCLA have developed a new technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors that can charge and discharge a hundred…
Researchers at Rice University believe that combining natural toxins with man-made mirror drugs will create the drug equivalent of a one-two punch, “confusing” bacteria and…
By using a computational method to capture the various shapes of the p53 protein, a protein that is implicated in nearly 40 percent of diagnosed…
Using a noncatalytic protein scaffold, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have generated the first artificial enzyme created by in vitro directed…
Fighting to stop deadly infections like Staphylococcus aureus, scientists have now identified the structural basis for antibiotic multiresistance acquisition by S. aureus and suggest ways…
In a newly published study, UC Davis scientists detail how they engineered cyanobacteria to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics, taking a step forward…
A new study indicates that scientists have found a new way of delaying the aging process in mice, and they hope to replicate the finding…
By combining two common polymers, polyacrylamide, and alginate, scientists at Harvard have created a new hydrogel that is capable of maintaining its elasticity and toughness…
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…