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Scientists report that they have succeeded in using a natural process called biocatalysis to control the shapes of macrocycles. These molecules can be used to create pharmaceutical and electronics.

Switching what the powerhouses of heart cells consume for energy could help the heart regenerate when cells die, a new study led by UT Southwestern researchers suggests.

Researchers have discovered that alternating peptides can in fact self-assemble into beta-sheet-based nanofibers, and also why this can happen.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have completed a cross-sectional human study that compares biomarkers and metal concentrations in the urine of e-cigarette users, nonsmokers, and cigarette smokers.

Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such as Facebook communities, and adapted it to identify how DNA and proteins are interconnected into communities within the cell nucleus.

Research conducted in the SCBI of the UMA shows, using bioinformatic approaches, that the expression of repetitive DNA regions changes when healthy cells become cancerous. The researchers have identified new biomarkers for the diagnosis, prognosis and even treatment of lung cancer.

In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers outline their work that could be considered a major step towards the development of a viable vaccine for the 2019 novel coronavirus. The work was deemed so pertinent that Science expedited its review process for the study manuscript.

Researchers have identified a protein that increases the accumulation of neurotoxic tau tangles in the brain, which may pave the way to treatments that work by blocking this protein.

A team of researchers in Japan have discovered a system in which cells could capture, degrade and remove aberrant extracellular proteins.

Researchers from the University of Sydney have conducted the first global review of herbal medicines for weight loss in 19 years, finding insufficient evidence to recommend any current treatments.