Gene silencing is a negative feedback mechanism that regulates gene expression to define cell fate and also regulates metabolism and gene expression throughout the life of an organism. In plants, gene ...

‘Cryo-EM is the future’ Her career has also been furthered by a $100,000 (£79,000) Cottrell Scholar Award that she won in 2022 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which funded her ...

Proteins are the molecular building blocks and engines of the cell, and are involved in practically all life processes. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry investigate the ...

A synthetic hydrolase enzyme with activity comparable to natural proteins has been designed from scratch using a combination of generative AI techniques. Synthetic proteins that promote multi-step ...

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Skatole is an infamously smelly molecule that, in some anaerobic bacteria, is synthesized from ʟ-tryptophan in a four-step process. Now, researchers have found that certain aerobic bacteria only ...

(Full Chapter Deleted) Need for classification, early attempts at classification of elements (Dobereiner’s Triads, Newland’s Law of Octaves, Mendeleev’s Periodic Table), Modern periodic ...

Mount Tai is one of China’s most revered mountains, attracting millions of visitors each year. For centuries, emperors, poets, and philosophers have made the pilgrimage to the mountain, in a ...

In a world where artificial intelligence often seems to demand the computing power of a small city, one engineer has managed to shrink it down to the size of a USB stick. Meet the pocket-sized ...

Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and ...

Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica and Institut de Recerca de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain ...