From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic ...

A research team has delivered a comprehensive overview showing how microbial fermentation—guided by synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and smart bioprocess design—can transform violacein from a ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

Cross-coupling reactions are those in which two different starting materials, each of which is usually endowed with an activating group, are reacted together with the aid of a metal catalyst. The ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

We've spent the past several days reiterating and lamenting the onset of the holiday trading doldrums--a time of year that sees vastly lower volumes/liquidity ...

The nearly 30-year tale of secalosides A and B began in 1997, when natural product chemists identified them as components of ...

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...

Nucleosomes are barriers to RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcribing along gene bodies in eukaryotes. We found that a fragile “tailless nucleosome” could be generated to resolve the Pol II pausing ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

A computer method for aid in biological classification based on graph theory is presented. The program not only defines hierarchical clusters but discovers intermediate forms and provides measures of ...