More than 60% of all drugs, including antibiotics and cancer treatments, are derived from natural products in the form of small molecules encoded by metabolic genes. These molecules often form complex chemical structures, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 4, 2022
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a novel strategy for identifying potent miniature antibodies, so-called nanobodies, against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The approach led to the discovery of ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 25, 2022
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Mathematicians at the University of Leicester have developed a new mathematical model which could greatly increase the efficiency of pest control and hence significantly reduce the impact of pests on crops whilst minimizing ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2022
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Quantum computers are expected to be disruptive and potentially impact many industry sectors. So researchers in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands decided to explore two very different quantum problems: breaking the encryption ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 25, 2022
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Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials—and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and testing their model, the scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 20, 2022
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Nature keeps a few secrets. While plenty of structures with low symmetry are found in nature, scientists have been confined to high-symmetry designs when synthesizing colloidal crystals, a valuable type of nanomaterial used ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2022
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Structural biology and computer simulations pave the way for a deeper understanding of biological energy conversion. High-resolution structure and atomistic simulations allowed researchers to identify novel features in one ...
Biochemistry
Nov 24, 2021
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Liquid droplets of protein and RNA have traits reminiscent of a childhood joy: Silly Putty.
Soft Matter
Nov 16, 2021
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When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related to birds and three-quarters of life on Earth, early ancestors of primates and marsupials were among the only tree-dwelling (arboreal) mammals ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2021
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Living or biological systems cannot be easily understood using the standard laws of physics, such as thermodynamics, as scientists would for gases, liquids or solids. Living systems are active, demonstrating fascinating properties ...
General Physics
Sep 28, 2021
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