In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped the DNA damages caused by smoking, reveals that the way our DNA is organized and chemically modified can influence ...

Short chains of amino acids can form drug delivery nanoparticles and boost the properties of potential medicines ...

Our Parliamentary Affairs and Policy and Evidence teams have submitted their calls to the Government as part of the feedback process for the Spending Review.

Researchers have discovered unexpected 1D-like spin behavior in a triangular molecular lattice, challenging the conventional ...

When you first enter a new world, you can either spawn near a structure or find one while exploring any of the three dimensions. While finding some can be quite easy, others are extremely hard to ...

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in ...

The international team describes their results and the underlying molecular mechanism in Cell Metabolism. Ergothioneine is a natural compound found in certain fungi such as oyster or shiitake ...

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Most traditional optical biosensors operate through molecular recognition, where ligand binding causes conformational changes that lead to ...

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China State Key ...

Alboslani detailed this research in her presentation "X-ray echoes from Sgr A* reveal the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Galactic Center" at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical ...