A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

However, lithium-sulfur batteries come with their own set of limitations. One major issue, known as the shuttle effect, ...

Proteins are the building blocks of life. They consist of folded peptide chains, which in turn are made up of a series of amino acids. From stabilizing cell structure to catalyzing chemical reactions, ...

Why do problems occur with a special variant of 'protein glues', the split inteins, that severely limit their use in producing proteins? A team has now answered this question.

known as the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP), was launched in 1994 to advance computational tools for modelling 3D protein configurations from their amino-acid sequences.

Lyophilization (freeze-drying) is commonly utilized to support peptide stability. Removing water from peptide solutions might significantly reduce hydrolysis and deamidation rates. Lyophilized ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Hazen says that by 2000 he had concluded that “making the basic building blocks of life is easy.” A harder question: How did the right building blocks get incorporated? Amino acids come in ...

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state that was discovered in a magnetic compound ...

Imagine a world of darkness, where sunlight never reaches and the pressure is crushing—yet in this abyss, life flourishes in ...