New hollow dodecahedral shell demonstrates remarkable stability and potential for functionalization and encapsulating ...

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as well as the chemical and physical structure of macromolecules. Molecular biologists focus on studying nucleic acids, proteins and the molecular basis of genetic processes. Understanding the ...

Yale researchers have now developed a method to map and measure the structure of RNA as it develops, an advance that may help ...

A research team has uncovered a previously unknown type of immune signaling molecule—a novel compound combining histidine and ...

What have we learned about RNA structure and function so far? Although RNA is a single-stranded molecule, researchers soon discovered that it can form double-stranded structures, which are ...

Because of their very large molecular weight (~ 10 6 ... The lower diagram shows the reorganization of the macromolecules during the plastic deformation process. If the material is initially amorphous ...

Mirkin, who coauthored the paper. "In the small molecule era, it was critical to control the placement of every atom and every bond within a particular structure. If one element was out of place, it ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Three-Dimensional Structure of a Protein Molecule ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 205 No. 6 (December 1961), p. 96 doi:10.1038 ...