Unraveling structure and function relationships in synthetic cell receptors
Northwestern University researchers have identified structural features in engineered cell receptors that correlate with ...
A Strange Discovery Just Changed What We Know About the First Stars
Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...
Researchers describe new molecular mechanisms linked to insulin resistance
Insulin resistance precedes and predicts the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), a chronic disease that causes high ...
This “Impossible” Crystal Is Changing What We Know About Reality
Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...
Physicists model how amorphous solids lose their stability
Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the "pile of snow?" If you ask yourself these questions, you are ...
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Stability vs flexibility: reshaping archaeal membranes in silico
This important study characterizes the mechanics and stability of bolalipids from archaeal membranes using molecular dynamics simulations. A mesoscale model of bolalipids is presented and evaluated ...
Ancient proteins reveal male Australopithecus africanus, oldest hominin found in Sterkfontein Caves
The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...