A research team based in Bochum and Mülheim is using a new type of salt to specifically produce one of two possible mirror-image molecules. In scenarios where two mirror-image molecules are possible, ...

Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have ...

Researchers have synthesised a hydrated chloride salt that halted the growth of coronavirus in cultured kidney epithelial cells from a monkey 1. The salt bound to a viral enzyme and specific proteins ...

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To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid ...