If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

Enzymes, the true engines of life, catalyze chemical reactions essential to our survival. Today, researchers are exploring ...

Advancements in machine learning are reshaping protein structure prediction, offering efficient tools that enhance drug ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

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Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Short chains of amino acids can form drug delivery nanoparticles and boost the properties of potential medicines ...

Furthermore, for amino acids, information about the relative ... (s): A patent application PCT/US2022/072941, Cyclic peptide structure prediction via structural ensembles achieved by molecular ...

Glavin and his team detected thousands of organic molecular compounds, including 33 amino acids, in the Bennu samples ... mingle and create more complex structures, setting the stage for organic ...

On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predominantly have a ‘left-handed’ chemical structure. Bennu, however, contains nearly equal amounts of these structures and their ‘right-handed ...