A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about ...

Scientists have identified a key gene that regulates sugar metabolism and dramatically improves tomato fruit quality and ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University ...

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 ...

Constructed wetlands are biological systems with the purpose of enhancing variety of chemical, microbial, natural physical and plant-mediated processes. Aerobic and anaerobic/compost wetlands are the ...

While the presence and significance of melanin have long been accepted, its exact chemical makeup remains unclear. Melanin has an inherent diversity of structure and complexity, making understanding ...

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine ... is the visual cycle—a complex chain of chemical reactions in which retinoids, or derivatives ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian soil ...

National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China College of Materials ...

The study, published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, sheds light on how chronic sucrose-water intake (10%) alters key physiological, molecular, and metabolic processes across various ...