These discoveries shed light on the chemical processes that may have seeded ... Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid bases ...

Chemists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have received a $1 million contract from the Defense Threat ...

Nature Medicine has been chronicling advances in medical technology and health care. To mark the journal’s 30th anniversary, each month ...

A $1 million DTRA grant enables researchers to create efficient detection methods for sulfur mustard, crucial for minimizing ...

DNA hydrogels are biocompatible drug delivery systems for targeted therapeutic interventions. Conventional DNA hydrogels, formed with many DNA nanostructure units, lead to increased preparation costs ...

Cigarette smoke causes cancer primarily by damaging the DNA. A new study that mapped these damages has revealed that the way ...

Molecular communications in the bloodstream is a promising area of research, since the bloodstream has the ability to ...

Chemists at Emory University have invented a reaction to streamline the total synthesis of a compound, phaeocaulisin A, ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

Organometallic chemistry is the study of the synthesis, structure and reactivity of chemical compounds that contain metal-carbon bonds. These compounds are often used as homogeneous catalysts.

Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with atomic and molecular structure and its change, for instance through chemical reactions. A tricoordinate ...

Precision Medicine Is the Future Of Healthcare When it comes to applied hard sciences, a source of progress has been more precise measurements and tools. This is especially true in physics and ...