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Analytical Chemistry May 13, 2024

New database aims to accelerate electrocatalyst development through atomic-scale insights

The quest for more productive catalysts for the creation of sustainable fuels and commodity chemicals via electrochemical reactions just became easier.

Bio & Medicine May 10, 2024

High-speed atomic force microscopy helps explain role played by certain biomolecules in DNA wrapping dynamics

In plants and animals, the basic packaging units of DNA, which carry genetic information, are the so-called nucleosomes. A nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight proteins known as histones.

Analytical Chemistry May 7, 2024

Study reveals flaw in long-accepted approximation used in water simulations

Computational scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular ...

Biochemistry May 3, 2024

Novel chemical tool for understanding membrane remodeling in the cell

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Umeå researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that inhibits interaction between two proteins in complexes that reshape membranes ...

Quantum Physics May 1, 2024

Generating graph states of atomic ensembles via photon-mediated entanglement

Graph states, a class of entangled quantum states that can be represented by graphs, have been the topic of numerous recent physics studies, due to their intriguing properties. These unique properties could make them particularly ...

Cell & Microbiology May 1, 2024

Discovery of an atypical heat shock factor, HSF5, involved in meiotic mechanisms has implications for male infertility

Kumamoto University researchers have identified a novel heat shock factor (HSF), designated as HSF5, which plays a crucial role in the completion of meiosis and the activation of genes essential for sperm formation. This ...

Archaeology Apr 25, 2024

Archaeologists unearth top half of statue of Ramesses II

A team co-led by a CU Boulder classics researcher has unearthed the upper portion of a huge, ancient pharaonic statue whose lower half was discovered in 1930; Ramesses II was immortalized in Percy Bysshe Shelly's "Ozymandias."

Cell & Microbiology Apr 24, 2024

Researchers unveil PI3K enzyme's dual accelerator and brake mechanisms

A group of researchers have expanded conventional knowledge on a critical enzyme that controls cell migration. In a publication in the journal Nature Communications, they reported that phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) not ...

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2024

Study confirms A. yasumatsui as sole biotic threat to Micronesian cycad

A new study has confirmed that the invasive A. yasumatsui, known as Cycad Aulacaspis Scale (CAS), stands alone as the greatest threat to the existence of the Cycas micronesica species. The endemic cycad species to Micronesia ...

Molecular & Computational biology Mar 26, 2024

Uncovering the mysteries of microproteins

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a method to identify and characterize microproteins—a development that opens the door for understanding physiology and disease at a molecular level of detail not previously ...

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