Molecular crystals, such as hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs), are ordered structures formed by organic ... Rock candy, where sucrose molecules form crystals via hydrogen bonds, is a ...

The not-so-sweet foods with low calorie, artificial sweeteners aren't necessarily better for you. Research shows that they ...

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

This valuable study focuses on defining how the HSP70 chaperone system utilizes J-domain proteins to regulate the heat shock response-associated transcription factor HSF1. Using a combination of ...

If people could design very efficient enzymes from scratch, you could solve many important problems,” said UCSB chemistry ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological ...

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their ...

The work tests and revises a 50-year old textbook model, known as the Bloch hypothesis, for the evolution of sterol metabolism in eukaryotic cells. The results indicate that the complexity of sterol ...