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Chemical & Engineering News ... 7 in Metals and Their Functional Role in the Structures of Invertebrates, edited by Matthew S. Lehnert. Springer, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68486-9_7.

Lariocidin, a peptide made by bacteria living in soil, was effective against several different microbes responsible for deadly infections. UIC researchers working with collaborators at McMaster ...

Biologists have discovered that bombesin, a neurohormone controlling appetite in humans, also regulates feeding in starfish, revealing its ancient evolutionary origin dating back over 500 million ...

This study provides compelling evidence that kinesin's stepping mechanism is governed by strain-induced conformational changes in its nucleotide-binding pockets. Using pre-steady state kinetics and ...

In focused research groups, students and faculty within WPI’s Chemical Engineering Department go beyond the classroom to solve real-world problems, continuing to make discoveries in areas like ...

Readers are referred to Refs 5,6 for details of the enzymology and molecular mechanisms of these ... The discovery of histone lysine demethylases has provided the opportunity for a detailed ...