With everything from violins to rifles being made on 3d printers, it seems the devices have taken the notion of DIY to a whole other level ... of the universe: biological molecules.

The major in biological sciences itself spans organisms from bacteria through plants and animals, levels of organization from molecules and cells through ecosystems, and modern research methods in ...

The 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry recognizes three men who developed a technique that's letting us see molecules in detail so fine it was thought impossible just a few decades ago. Called cryo ...

Structural biology illuminates the function of important biological molecules through the study of their shape ... of the mechanisms that are going on inside cells at the most basic level. Inspiration ...

Researchers have realized a long-held dream: inspired by an industrial assembly line, they have developed a nanoscale production line for the assembly of biological molecules. Cars, planes and ...

Knowing the answer at finer and finer scales of measurement is important for analyzing the results of these experiments and understanding how biological molecules do their work. Such understanding ...

It turns out that when producing vanillin, orchids incorporate a little more 13 C into the molecules they are making ... differences between amino acids of biological origin and those made in ...

Enzymes are biological molecules (typically proteins) that significantly speed up the rate of virtually all of the chemical reactions that take place within cells. They are vital for life and ...