Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.

Palivan and her colleagues carry out research into tiny containers made of polymers that they can load with specific ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

A research team has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

There is also evidence that individual nucleotides can spontaneously assemble into chains to make RNA. This is a crucial step ...

At Durban's King Dinuzulu Hospital, a TB patient with advanced lung disease awaits surgery for massive haemoptysis - severe ...

The work is the most dramatic example yet of a sequence of C-H functionalization reactions ... "It's by far the most complex natural product we have made using our method," says Huw Davies, Emory ...

High-throughput screening (HTS) enables the rapid testing of numerous compounds against biological targets. By automating and ...

The Hamilton scientists were able to map a CWD prion, the misfolded protein that causes the deadly brain disease, to the near ...