At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

Researchers have discovered three compounds with anti-aging properties produced by a bacterium in the blood, which reduced damage and inflammatory responses.

Consequently, food molecules often provide chemical scaffolds that are optimized for protein binding 49 but also have a broad range of structures and features.

Credit: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/ What is DNA, and how does it work? You don't need a degree in genetics to understand. Here, we'll give an overview of DNA and answer questions ...

How an enzyme powers parrots’ colorful plumage ALDH3A2 oxidizes psittacofulvins—chemicals that account for red, orange, yellow, and green feathers by Bethany Halford ...

This chemical property makes them highly reactive and challenging to handle, requiring special techniques and equipment to grow crystals large enough for X-ray diffraction analysis. Therefore, ...

Researchers developed a WGS method that read four canonical DNA bases, viz., adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T) plus 5mC and 5hmC, epigenetic variants of unmodified C to yield ...