Photosynthesis drives all life on Earth. Complex processes are required for the sunlight-powered conversion of carbon dioxide and water to energy-rich sugar and oxygen. These processes are driven by two protein complexes, ...
Biochemistry
Mar 24, 2023
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Applying hydrostatic pressure as an external stimulus, Tokyo Tech and Keio University researchers demonstrate a new way to regulate singlet fission (SF), a process in which two electrons are generated from a single photon, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 23, 2023
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Fluorescence is a fascinating natural phenomenon. It is based on the fact that certain materials can absorb light of a certain wavelength and then emit light of a different wavelength. Fluorescent materials play an important ...
Biochemistry
Mar 10, 2023
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A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the world's most productive chemical synthesis, which could yield antibiotic anthracimycin and anthracimycin B that is 63 times ...
Biochemistry
Mar 8, 2023
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Researchers wanted to better understand how cell membranes in the body influence the structure of peptides—molecules made up of amino acids—and their aggregation. To do this, they used model systems that are easy to control ...
Biochemistry
Mar 6, 2023
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An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center research team has created what team members believe to be among the first small molecules designed to stimulate immune cells to fight cancer. More importantly, these compounds inhibit a specific ...
Biochemistry
Feb 28, 2023
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Scientists from Rice University are using fluorescence lifetime to shed new light on a peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates will affect nearly 14 million ...
Biochemistry
Jan 25, 2023
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New research uses AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered protein structure database, to accelerate the design and synthesis of a drug to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver ...
Biochemistry
Jan 19, 2023
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Recent advances in imaging technology have made it possible to visualize intracellular dynamics, which offers a better understanding of several key biological principles for accelerating therapeutic development. Fluorescent ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2022
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An unusual protein structure known as a "rippled beta sheet," first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using X-ray crystallography.
Biochemistry
Sep 2, 2022
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