The glycocalyx surrounds each cell in the human body like a coat. This complex sugar layer plays a key role in the ...

If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to ...

Scientists at OIST have defied a foundational rule in chemistry by creating a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene—an ...

Inside each cell of the human body are proteins that control which genes are expressed at the right place and time. However, ...

Now for the first time, with the help of 3D imaging, scientists at the UK's Leeds University have revealed the molecular structures of the two key proteins present in brains affected by Alzheimer's ...

Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

Astronomers have discovered a 200-light-year-wide Giant Molecular Cloud dubbed the Midpoint cloud that seems to be feeding ...

Structure of an entire DT57C bacteriophage. The entire virus was reconstructed in three dimensions at near-atomic resolution and visualized in this animation. The word “virus” is often ...