An illustration shows how custom-made peptide molecules (shown in pink and purple) can slip through a cell membrane. (Image by Ian C. Haydon / UW Institute for Protein Design) Researchers at the ...

The very first life on earth is thought to have developed from 'protocells' -- liquid mixtures of many different types of molecules. Researchers have now shown that in such mixtures, small imbalances ...

One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an unpaired electron, free radicals may be familiar to you; these are the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aminocyanine molecules are already used in bioimaging as synthetic dyes. Commonly used in low doses to detect cancer, they stay ...

Since 2017, a personalized immunotherapy called Chimeric Antigen Receptor, or CAR-T cell treatment, has worked wonders to ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in ...

NASA's robotic vehicle has found unprecedentedly large organic molecules on the red planet, although scientists have not been able to determine their origin. They were formed 3.7 billion years ago ...