For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage -- phage for short -- that has allowed them to see for the first time the structural makeup of the part of the phage that ...

Scientists examined microscopic blobs of protein found in human cells has discovered that some morph from an almost honey-like substance to a hard candy-like solid. These mysterious droplets, known as ...

Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water — a feat long ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

But when U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers Christina Bergonzo and Alexander Grishaev put ...

Starch and oils are known as storehouses of carbon in plants. However, the way in which carbon resources are allocated during ...

Plants store carbon in two primary forms: starch and triacylglycerols (TAGs). Starch is mainly stored in chloroplasts in ...