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With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...

"Thus, even as a cornerstone of the nuclear landscape, 208 Pb remains a puzzle for nuclear structure theories." Doubly magic nuclei are particularly stable against nuclear decay; 208 Pb is the ...

A new reagent has moved carbon-atom transfer out of the chemical flatlands, allowing chemists to place a single carbon atom so that it makes bonds to four different substituents. The reagent makes ...

We report here that cysteine-bound sulfane sulfur atoms serve as ligands to hold and release zinc ions in growth inhibitory factor (GIF)/metallothionein-3 (MT-3) with an unexpected C– S–S–Zn structure ...

Several models of the polymeric Sso7d–DNA complex with different protein/DNA ratios can be constructed by using the structure of the complex observed in the crystals. Previously we presented a ...