In a finding that offers fresh insights into the early evolution of life on Earth, two RIKEN biologists have conducted lab ...

Germany, have developed a new method that makes it possible for the first time to image the three-dimensional shape of ...

Now, for the first time, scientists have observed this process in action up close. In real-time, and on a molecular scale, materials scientist Vinayak Dravid of Northwestern University and his ...

Computational methods in elucidating structural, functional, and dynamical properties of biomolecules have become ...

Vitamin B1, also known as thiamine, is essential for the survival of our cells. The human body can't produce it, but we can maintain healthy levels of this vitamin by eating foods like salmon, legumes ...

manipulates molecular activity to assure its survival against its host's natural defenses. Their findings were recently published in Structure, a Cell Press journal that supports open access.

The results were published in the Advanced Materials journal. The chirality of a molecule refers to its basic structure: Some molecules, so-called enantiomers, occur in pairs and are mirror images ...

Using X-ray crystallography, they could visualize the structure of this complex down to atomic detail, helping them to understand how the small molecule was able to recruit the two proteins together.

About 1,200 Germans are diagnosed with gastrointestinal stromal tumors every year—a rare type of cancer in which the tumors ...

Their research was just published in the open access journal Structure published by Cell ... a potential foundation for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying various bacterial ...

Emerging protein-design competitions aim to sift out the functional from the fantastical. But researchers hope that the real ...

Australian researchers have created a drug using a molecule from the venom of funnel-web spiders. Picture: Supplied The researchers discovered a peptide which protects the heart during a heart ...