When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things—including a crucial event that happened ...

Structural and computational approaches uncover the molecular basis for dimerization, open-closed conformational transitions, and the dynamic behavior of the human angiotensin-I converting enzyme ...

A combination of cryogenic electron microscopy and molecular simulations has been used to study the structure and dynamics of an enzyme called ACE.

People are still debating whether the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines remains in the body longer than it should. Some say it ...

Understanding how drugs interact with their molecular targets at the atomic level is central to modern drug discovery.

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

Previous researches on DNA included topics of bases, base-pairing, hydrogen bonds, structure, base sequence, dynamics, ...

Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...

How does our nose work? Have you wondered how we can detect so many different types of odors? There is chemistry behind food smells. In this activity, we will explore how small changes in chemical ...

This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant Nos. 24K01886 to H.Y. and 23K23560 to M.M.), by the commissioned research ...

For more than two decades, lone actors with weapons of mass destruction ambitions have relied on crude toxins like ricin and amatoxins because plants like castor beans and mushrooms that contain these ...

The permanent-magnet industry today is largely dependent on rare earth elements sourced from deposits in China, like this mining operation in Jiangxi Province. Credit: AP/Chinatopix Funding is ...