A biodegradable polymer developed by MIT chemical engineers could find use in beauty products and cleansers—and could even ...

This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

Endosomal recycling is a branch of intracellular membrane trafficking that retrieves endocytosed cargo proteins from early and late endosomes to prevent their degradatio ...

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

L-tyrosine is an amino acid that's often used in supplements to improve cognitive function affected by stress. Supplements containing L-tyrosine supplements may also help treat phenylketonuria (PKU).

Of the 20 essential amino acids, nine are actually essential. Of those nine, three are branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Leucine falls into both groups. All BCAAS are vital for building and ...

The interaction between amino acids (AAs) and hydration water is fundamental to ... we show that its behavior is in fact nonmonotonic: hydrophobic residues show slow water diffusion due to highly ...

The headgroups of these peptides typically contain amino acid residues with weakly acidic or weakly basic side chains (Hendricks et al., 2017). The competition between the hydrophobic interactions of ...

In this case, investigations of the space rock’s compost pile yielded organic compounds including the five nucleic acids that make up DNA and RNA and 14 of the 20 amino acids that cells use to ...