Researchers have demonstrated a new material for single-molecule electronic switches, which can effectively vary current at the nanoscale in response to external stimuli. The material for this molecular switch has a unique ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 30, 2023
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Have you ever wondered how drugs reach their targets and achieve their function within our bodies? If a drug molecule or a ligand is a message, an inbox is typically a receptor in the cell membrane. One such receptor involved ...
Biochemistry
Jun 8, 2023
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Brain cells manufacture proteins in every corner, including their long branches. Neurons missing this ability cause severe neurological disorders like disability and epilepsy. The groups of Marino Zerial, Max Planck Institute ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 2, 2023
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An international study led by Monash University has, for the first time, harnessed cutting-edge technology to reveal new and unprecedented information of how a special class of drugs, known as "allosteric modulators" work ...
Biochemistry
May 30, 2023
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Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) have attracted much attention because of high conversion efficiency, low environmental pollution, and high specific energy, which can be widely used in vehicles such as automobiles, ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 26, 2023
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Using a high-speed "electron camera" at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and cutting-edge quantum simulations, scientists have directly imaged a photochemical "transition state," a specific ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 26, 2023
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The nucleobase molecules carrying the genetic codes are the most important ingredients for life, but they are also very vulnerable. When the ultraviolet component in the sunlight irradiates these molecules, the electrons ...
Biochemistry
May 19, 2023
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Semicrystalline polymers are solids that are assumed to flow only above their melting temperature. In a new study published in Science Advances, Chien-Hua Tu and a research team at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research ...
Scientists have developed two new drug candidates for potentially treating addiction and depression, modeled on the pharmacology of a traditional African psychedelic plant medicine called ibogaine. At very low doses, these ...
Biochemistry
May 2, 2023
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In the cell nucleus, numerous proteins bind to the DNA molecule in order to regulate the activity of certain genes. One of these is the TATA-box binding protein (TBP), which binds to a specific DNA sequence and constitutes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2023
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