Inspired by how DNA can pack massive quantities of information into tiny amounts of material, chemists have been working for ...

Nichenametla from the Orentreich Foundation for the Advancement of Science Inc., investigated whether the drug buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) could replicate the effects of sulfur amino acid ...

Researchers developed a new machine learning method that, given a relevant amino acid sequence, can automatically predict the location of a protein in any human cell line down to the single-cell level ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

Dementia researchers have made a surprising discovery regarding an amino acid previously believed to benefit cognitive functions and memory; it may instead activate a gene associated with the ...

Watch a Cornell ice hockey game at Lynah Rink and you'll spend three periods looking at—or rather, through—a methacrylate, a ...

Cells have a trick called splicing. They can cut a gene's message into pieces and decide which fragments to keep. By mixing ...

Written by a team of leading scientists in the field, it covers all the essential aspects of proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, including the rise and fall of proteins, membranes and gradients, the ...

Future Microbiol. 2009;4(2):223-240.