Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have peered deep into the heart of a key protein used in drug design and discovered dynamic structural features that may lead to new ways to target diseases. The protein, ...
Biochemistry
Dec 28, 2017
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Thousands of dams built along U.S. rivers and streams over the last century now provide electricity for homes, store water for agriculture and support recreation for people. But they also have significant downstream impacts: ...
Environment
Dec 18, 2017
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a new approach to testing multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips that are now appearing in some of the latest consumer devices. ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 28, 2017
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Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new drug screening technique that could lead to the rapid and accurate identification of fentanyl, as well as a vast number of other drugs of abuse, which up until now have ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 2, 2017
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Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch that can be custom-designed to bind to specific therapeutic targets.
Biochemistry
Sep 27, 2017
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A multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, theoretical physicists, chemists and biochemists from the University of Bristol came together to study the self-assembly of protein building into protein cages with possible applications ...
Biochemistry
Aug 7, 2017
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The stage is set for a new era of data-driven protein molecular engineering as advances in DNA synthesis technology merge with improvements in computational design of new proteins.
Biochemistry
Jul 13, 2017
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Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses.
Computer Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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EPFL scientists have created a new computer model that can help better design of allosteric drugs, which control proteins "at a distance".
General Physics
Feb 20, 2017
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Don't expect designer babies any time soon—but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely ...
Biotechnology
Feb 14, 2017
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