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Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

Innovative designs of GPCRs with enhanced signaling and stability offer new insights for drug discovery and synthetic biology ...

Snow provides insulation, reflects sunlight and acts as a medium for transporting and depositing essential nutrients, like nitrogen, into the environment.

Essential amino acids are organic compounds that your body needs to function. You can get them from certain foods. Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks of proteins, are compounds ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Missense mutations are genetic alterations arising from the substitution of a single base pair (bp) in an amino acid (aa) sequence with a different base pair, resulting in the translation of a ...

“We have been able to make amino-acid-based ‘ligands’ whose self-assembly structures vary – predictably and reproducibly – depending on which amino acid we use,” says first author ...

Dworkin co-authored a paper outlining the chemical compounds scientists found in the Bennu samples. They included 14 of the ...

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a new process for reversing the polarity of chemical compounds, also known as umpolung, for the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals.