Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in ...

Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in nature, patterns of molecules ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Less than a month after researchers unveiled that a “ticking DNA clock” is behind Huntington’s disease (HD), scientists have ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

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