Scientific research is a process fraught with fits and starts, dead-ends, dashed dreams, unexpected turns, and the occasional exhilarating insight. As scientists, many of us continue along our career path in part because ...
General Physics
Mar 1, 2013
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(Phys.org)—A research team at Weill Cornell Medical College has solved the 3D crystal structure of a member protein in one of the most important classes of human proteins—the G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). These ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 27, 2013
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(Phys.org)—If you thought antifreeze was only something that was necessary to keep your car from freezing up in the winter, think again. Plants and animals living in cold climates have natural antifreeze proteins (AFPs) ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2013
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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed a unique software program that enables prescreening of the three-dimensional structure of proteins and enzymes for pharmaceutical and biochemical research prior to drug synthesis. ...
Biochemistry
Jan 11, 2013
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Certain plants and animals protect themselves against temperatures below freezing with antifreeze proteins. How the larva of the beetle Dendroides canadensis manages to withstand temperatures down to -30 degrees Celsius is ...
Materials Science
Jan 2, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Calpain, a calcium-regulated enzyme, is essential to a host of cellular processes, but can cause severe problems in its overactivated state. It has been implicated as a factor in muscular dystrophy, AIDS, Alzheimer's ...
Biochemistry
Dec 27, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Viruses are just bits of DNA or RNA and proteins, but they have proved to be capable of immense destruction to human health. How have they achieved the ability to create such devastating diseases in organisms ...
Biochemistry
Nov 21, 2012
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Chemists at New York University have discovered a family of anti-freeze molecules that prevent ice formation when water temperatures drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Their findings, which are reported in the latest issue ...
Materials Science
Nov 19, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Physics researchers working at Brandeis University have created a gel that is capable of spontaneous movement. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they created gel drops by ...
Scientists at Yale University have described in the greatest detail yet aspects of the chemical processes by which RNA carries out the expression of our genes.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2012
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