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Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water
So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely ...
EurekAlert!3d
From plants to people: How amino acid, vitamin balance links plant immunity to epilepsy
A groundbreaking study, published in Nature Plants, led by a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has revealed a surprising ...
Enzymes are the engines of life—machine learning could help scientists design new ones
Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...
Disruption of a single amino acid in a cellular protein makes breast cancer cells behave like stem cells
Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, ...
eLife3h
Drug Discovery: How to exploit the recycling system of a cell
E1s and E2s first work generically across the cell to activate and prepare ubiquitin for attachment. E3 ligases then ensure that the tag is added to the right protein; as such, hundreds of specific ...
The einstein problem: Molecular chirality leads to unexpected aperiodic patterns on metal surfaces
Standing at the intersection between mathematics and the tiler's trade is the so-called einstein problem. Despite its name, ...
Analytics India Magazine16h
Microsoft’s New Open Source Deep Learning Model Can Generate ‘Thousands of Protein Structures Per Hour’
We believe that BioEmu-1 is the first step towards generating the full ensemble of structures that a protein can take,” ...
PsyPost on MSN3d
A single amino acid change in a protein may underlie human language
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating piece of the puzzle surrounding the origins of human language, suggesting that a ...
Nature23d
Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
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 ...