A Salk Institute study found that a simple dietary amino acid, methionine, dramatically improved survival in mice facing severe infections and inflammatory conditions. Rather than directly targeting ...

The Chemical Biology of Microbes and Membrane Proteins Lab is driven by a fundamental interest in how proteins function at the molecular level. The team seeks to establish quantitative ...

A chemical leak at a West Virginia plant killed two people and sent 19 others to the hospital, authorities said. The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business in ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we once thought: NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet. According to a news release from NASA April 21, scientists confirmed ...

As many as 30 others were treated at a hospital and at the scene after a “chemical release” of hydrogen sulfide at a plant in Nitro, W.Va., the authorities said. By Christine Hauser and Mark Walker ...

Abstract: Accurate extraction of molecular representations is a critical step in the drug discovery process. In recent years, significant progress has been made in molecular representation learning ...

Succinylation is a novel post-translational modification involving the attachment of a negatively charged succinyl group to lysine residues, which fundamentally alters the structure and function of ...

Constructing out-of-equilibrium molecular assemblies that deviate from thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in materials science. While numerous studies have reported the creation of such ...

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D structures of flexible sugar molecules. By growing crystals of galectin-10 ...

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry hold a model of a metal-organic framework during the 2025 prize announcement in Stockholm on October 8. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images Three ...