In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

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Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion, while quantum technology typically requires extreme ...

A collaborative team from the Rosalind Franklin Institute, the University of Oxford, and Diamond Light Source has developed a breakthrough method that makes it possible to image very small proteins ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago reveals how the blood-brain barrier gets leakier with age, ...

Raman-SEM enables next-generation biological imaging by combining chemical and structural analysis in a single workflow.

Research from the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has revealed that lignin, a polyphenol, ...

For decades, drug discovery has focused on inhibiting enzymes to treat disease. Yet vast swathes of the proteome remain ...