Viral proteases, the key enzymes that regulate viral replication and assembly, are promising targets for antiviral drug discovery. Herpesvirus proteases are enzymes with no crystallographically ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

This work reports the first CMOS molecular electronics chip. It is configured as a biosensor, where the primary sensing element is a single molecule “molecular wire” consisting of a ∼100 GΩ, 25 nm ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the equivalent of 40,000 CDs' worth of music—that's three years of nonstop tunes!

We describe a novel synthetic small molecule which shows an unprecedented stabilization of the human telomeric G-quadruplex with high selectivity relative to double-stranded DNA. We report that this ...

During plant growth, the demand for energy necessitates an increase in the number of chloroplasts. This increase is achieved through chloroplast division, which begins with the formation of the ...

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.

Designing new molecules is essential for drug discovery and material science. Recently, deep generative models that aim to model molecule distribution have made promising progress in narrowing down ...

The azide radical was identified in 1956 and a tetranitrogen complex was glimpsed in mass spectra in 2002, but its structure remains undetermined. 2 While the dinitrogen molecule is low in energy, ...

New research identifies the immune molecule STING as a driver of brain damage in Alzheimer’s. A new approach to Alzheimer’s disease has led to an exciting discovery that could help stop the ...