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

Lipids are made from long chains of fatty acids, but before the existence of complex life, how did these first cell membranes form from the simple molecules present on Earth billions of years ago?

Before the time of Wöhler and Berthelot, the understanding of even simple molecules was as naïve as our current understanding of complex biological systems. How the composition of organic ...

A simple molecule contains only a few atoms, so the sizes of atoms and simple molecules have a similar range of sizes. They are very small, typically around 0.1 nm or 10-10 m across. Individual ...

The book builds from the basic relationship between promoters, operators and repressors that is at the heart of the decision between bacteriophage lambda's two lifestyles, lysis and lysogeny. The ...

My group studies collisions and reactions of simple cold molecules. Our ultimate goal is to understand the quantum mechanical processes involved in making and breaking a chemical bond. We aim to ...

There are greater intermolecular forces between the long chains compared with smaller simple molecules. This means that polymers have a higher melting point than many other organic molecules.

Filling the gap between the relatively simple molecules treated by Wales and coworkers 8 and real proteins, both experimentally and computationally, is certainly one possible approach. Finding the ...