News tagged with virtual molecules

Super-sized tiny proteins

What are the causes of illness? How can the effect of medication be improved? Molecular biologists can now gain new insights by the virtual simulations generated with a new type of software.

Biology / Other

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting

Like astronomers counting stars in the familiar universe of outer space, chemists in Switzerland are reporting the latest results of a survey of chemical space -- the so-called chemical universe where tomorrow’s ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2




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Study suggests expanding the genetic alphabet may be easier than previously thought

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T)—is more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Japanese researchers realize world's first oxidation reaction with well-defined molecular alignment, spin directions

Japanese researchers developed the world’s first O2 molecular beam which enables designation of the alignment of the molecular axis and spin direction.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Crowding causes cells to produce an orderly matrix of molecules

When researchers conduct experiments on the way cells grow and respond to outside cues, they tend to use solutions that are much more dilute than the crowded environments found inside living cells. Now, new ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Pollination with precision: How flowers do it

Pollination could be a chaotic disaster. With hundreds of pollen grains growing long tubes to ovules to deliver their sperm to female gametes, how can a flower ensure that exactly two fertile sperm reach every ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Did exploding stars help life on Earth to thrive?

(Phys.org) -- Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Researchers take steps toward fast, low-cost DNA sequencing device

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Yale University have developed a new concept for use in a high-speed genomic sequencing device that may have the potential to substantially drive down costs.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In protein folding, internal friction may play a more significant role than previously thought

An international team of researchers has reported a new understanding of a little-known process that happens in virtually every cell of our bodies.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Avocado oil: The 'olive oil of the Americas'?

Atmospheric oxygen facilitated the evolution and complexity of terrestrial organisms, including human beings, because it allowed nutrients to be used more efficiently by those organisms, which in turn were able to generate ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Research team uses nanoparticles to make paper waterproof and magnetic

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, led by Roberto Cingolani, have devised a means for connecting cellulose fibers in ordinary paper with nanoparticles resulting in new desired properties, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

New process converts polyethylene into carbon fiber

(PhysOrg.com) -- Common material such as polyethylene used in plastic bags could be turned into something far more valuable through a process being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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