A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

From vaccines and diagnostics to emerging gene-based therapies, RNA molecules are now central to modern medicine. But as ...

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl group (C=O) to a nitrogen atom. They're so ubiquitous that 117 of the top ...

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

A protein long implicated in diabetes and obesity may hold the key to treating Alzheimer’s disease by reinvigorating the ...

Some of Earth’s earliest microbes evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before it accumulated in ...

Scientists have uncovered promising clues that compounds found in Aloe vera could play a role in fighting Alzheimer’s disease ...

The authors’ approach is deceptively simple: take an aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme, which naturally converts aldehydes to acids, and get it to react with an amine instead of water. But actually making ...

The concept of "good fats" and "bad fats" has influenced diet trends, public health policy, and biomedical research for ...

Aloe vera is widely known as a plant used to soothe burns and skin irritation, but it also contains many natural compounds that may affect processes inside the body. Researchers are now exploring ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown enzyme that plays a crucial role in fat production. By blocking it, they stopped weight gain, reduced liver damage, and lowered harmful cholesterol ...