Biochemistry

New insights into epistasis could impact future drug delivery and therapeutic strategies A team of researchers including Northwestern Engineering faculty has expanded the understanding of how virus shells self-assemble, an important step…

Guodong Zhang, assistant professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is being honored with the 2019 Young Scientist Research Award from the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS). The award is given to scientists…

Work published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that an enzyme inhibitor developed by Professor Bruce Hammock and colleagues at UC Davis reduced inflammation in the brains of mice born to…

Credit: Morgan Beeby, [email protected] In favorable conditions, many bacteria propel themselves to food sources and other sites of interest using whip-like molecular propellers known as flagella. However, according to new research…

UT system collaboration studies human nerve cells for genes tied to neuropathyCredit: University of Texas at Dallas A new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Health Science Center at…

Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence, and the Scheibye-Knudsen…

Trail-and-error experimentation in drug design can be omitted by control over location in drugs in molecular delivery packageCredit: Alessandro Ianori Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University have…

A scientist from James Cook University in Australia says an innovative study has revealed new evidence that eating fish can help prevent asthma. Professor Andreas Lopata from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine,…

Osaka University researcher proves the value of electron accelerators for creating free radicals and understanding their damaging effects on biological moleculesCredit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - In a groundbreaking series of…

The UToledo research published in Molecular Pharmacology finds that statins can be beneficial during heart attacks and cancer cell metastasisCredit: Dan Miller, The University of Toledo While investigating why cholesterol-lowering drugs…