WE wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure ... chains are held together by the purine and pyrimidine bases. The planes of the bases are ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have developed a powerful new technique to better understand how ...

Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...

Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level.

What Is Alpha-Lipoic Acid? Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is an antioxidant that your body makes. You also get it from foods such as broccoli, carrots, potatoes, and red meat. ALA is produced in small ...

Insulin is a hormone made in your pancreas, a gland located behind the stomach. It allows your body to use glucose for energy. Glucose is a type of sugar found in many carbohydrates. The body ...

I’m a metabolite in your body and a useful research compound. What molecule am I?

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Fatty acid molecules are usually joined together in groups of three, forming a molecule called a triglyceride. Triglycerides are also made in our bodies from the carbohydrates that we eat. Fatty acids ...

RBP3 as a large molecule consisting of four retinoid-binding modules, has long lost its original catalytic functionality, and it evolved to be a cargo transporter interacting with a variety of ...