Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet.
Materials Science
Dec 28, 2020
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A research team from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), together with colleagues from Lisbon, has produced a semi-artificial electrode that could convert light energy into other forms of energy in biosolar cells. The technique ...
Materials Science
Dec 21, 2020
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An international team of scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, have found how the ECSIT protein dictates the behavior of proteins linked to the energy activity in mitochondria, which is largely affected in ...
Biochemistry
Dec 16, 2020
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Precious metal-free nanoparticles could serve as powerful catalysts in the future, for example for hydrogen production. To optimize them, researchers must be able to analyze the properties of individual particles. A new method ...
Nanophysics
Dec 15, 2020
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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered that a silver-doped platinum thiolate nanometal complex shows 18-fold greater photoluminescence than the original platinum complex. In their recent paper, they provide ...
Materials Science
Dec 8, 2020
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Some useful drugs consist of peptides acting on their protein targets. To make them more efficient and stable, scientists have found a way to replace crucial segments of the peptides with ureido units. These oligoureas, which ...
Biochemistry
Dec 7, 2020
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A Florida State University research team is mixing the old with the new to create a more stable solar cell.
Materials Science
Dec 2, 2020
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Pharmaceuticals, plastics, and many other chemical products have transformed human life. To prepare these products, chemists often use a catalyst—frequently based on rare metals—at various points in their syntheses. Although ...
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2020
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The addition and removal of methyl groups on DNA plays an important role in gene regulation. In order to study these mechanisms more precisely, a German team has developed a new method by which specific methylation sites ...
Biochemistry
Nov 24, 2020
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A research team, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled a new eco-friendly and low-cost method to synthesize indolopyran, one type of nitrogen ring compound, ...
Materials Science
Nov 20, 2020
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