Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

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

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically ... is analogous to the enzymatic growth of amino acids with chiral structures in vivo, which leads to ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and ...

Frontiers Science Center for Synthetic Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China State Key Laboratory of Synthetic ...