biochemistry

Psychedelics are evolutionarily ancient compounds produced by fungi, plants, and microbes. Humans also synthesize psychedelics. Researchers want to know how and why.

A discovery that goes back to the first studies of translation has become the topic of biotech buzz.

Two groups independently discovered that Fanzor proteins in eukaryotic organisms are CRISPR’s genome-editing cousins.

Brought together by a shared interest in synthetic biology and diagnostics, two researchers are transforming how we label biomolecules.

Esther Ngumbi believes that chemical signals between plants, microbes, and insects hold the key to secure and sustainable food production.

Cutting-edge analytical instruments provide researchers with improved analysis capabilities in a compact design.

Scientists developed a novel nanotechnology that simultaneously detects multiple viruses from patient samples in less than an hour.

As soon as Melanie McConnell added the wash buffer to her sample, she knew she had made a mistake.

Skin moles that sprout thick, long hairs produce signaling molecules that stimulate hair follicle stem cells to initiate new hair growth. This discovery may make baldness a thing of the past.

From humble yet ingenious beginnings to Nobel recognition, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides insights into scientific questions that other technologies are unable to answer.

When Gaurav Ghag realized that he had replicated a calculation error in every experiment during four years of his graduate research, he initially thought that his career had unraveled with his protein.  

A bacterial strain from healthy corals could slow the progression and prevent transmission of the destructive stony coral tissue loss disease in the wild.

Researchers redefine the lost art of smelling illness using one woman’s exquisitely sensitive nose.

In individual yeast cells, essential biosynthetic processes peak at different times in the cell cycle, revealing a temporal dynamic once thought limited to DNA synthesis.