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 ...

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

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

Starch and oils are known as storehouses of carbon in plants. However, the way in which carbon resources are allocated during metabolism in plants remained unknown. Now, however, using a forward ...

Here's why using sushi rice for risotto won't deliver the creamy texture you're after, and what varieties to use instead for the best results.

63 Higher water retention within the structure results in higher material thickness, 63 which explains the higher value observed for T2 – treatment where the lowest SMTP and SS were used, associated ...

we have focused our efforts on solving the crystal structure of a mouse TCR in complex with an allogeneic MHC molecule. MHC alleles can differ from one another by up to 20 amino acids and most of ...