Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in billions of years. A research team has become the first in the world to ...

Chemists at FAU develop a procedure that makes external catalysts superfluous In the future, it may be possible to produce bioactive molecules and pharmaceuticals without relying on expensive enzymes ...

A controlled/"living" click polymerization method developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Nagoya ...

Penn State DuBois and Metaltech Inc., a local leader in powdered metal manufacturing, are teaming up on a new research ...

Chemists decipher reaction process that could improve lithium-sulfur batteries A combination of battery technology and catalysis opens new avenues for cheap, high-capacity batteries ...

High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy makes it possible to study complex enzymatic processes in detail. With this method, ...

The chaperone Hsp90 interacts with different cochaperones during its reaction cycle. Now a ternary complex of Hsp90 with ATPase inhibitor Sti1 and prolyl isomerase Cpr6 is identified as an ...

Redox layer deposition (RLD) cycle: monolayer adsorption of propargyl alcohol on a surface (left), reduction of MnO 4-by the adsorbed propargyl alcohol and formation of thin MnO 2 (right). The process ...