Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

For the first time, chemists have discovered a unique way to control and modify a type of compound widely used in medicines, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Every protein in the body is encased in a water shell that directs protein structure, provides vital stability and steers ...

The peptides AM1 and Lac21E self-organize into switchable films at an air–water interface. In an earlier study, it was proposed that both AM1 and Lac21E formed monolayers of α-helical peptides based ...

One class of functionally important RNA is repeating transcripts that cause disease through various mechanisms. For example, expanded CAG repeats can cause Huntington’s and other disease through ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...