The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy transthyretin moves ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy ...

They arranged dozens of red Solo and clear plastic cups, each containing one alum crystal, on the room’s large wooden table. Slips of paper identifying who submitted the crystal were then promptly ...

Superionic materials are a class of materials that simultaneously present properties that are characteristic of solids and ...

Now, Scripps Research scientists have uncovered new structures of transthyretin. Their findings, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology on January 22, 2025, show how the three-dimension ...

Although it is currently not possible to synthetically recreate humans, plants, or animals from genetic data, there has been ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures ...

Here we explore peptide inhibitors of Cdc20, a substrate-recognition subunit and activator of the E3 ubiquitin ligase the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) that is essential in mitosis and ...

Caltech researchers 3D print chain mail-like material - known as PAM - that responds to some stresses like a fluid and others like a solid.

New theory offers insights into the origin of the very low and negative thermal expansion observed in cordierite ...

This study reveals efficient synthesis of ibuprofen:nicotinamide co-crystals via mechanochemistry, highlighting ...