Unlike traditional microscopes that use light or lenses, DNA microscopy creates images by calculating interactions among molecules.

In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly ...

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RNA-based therapeutics are gaining traction due to advancements in delivery technologies, despite historical challenges with ...

Oxytocin is often nicknamed the "love hormone" and frequently makes headlines in the press. But behind this idyllic image, ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Artificial cells using riboswitch-gene fusion in liposomes produce fluorescent proteins when detecting specific targets.

The phenomenon is called chirality, and the molecules that have this property are called chiral molecules. For the latter ones, this means that the left-handed and the right-handed molecules, also ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a ...