Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Corey Shawn Bavousett is the name of the inmate who died this past Sunday at the Bill Clements unit outside of Amarillo. A custodial death report filed with the Office of the ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...

There could be life as we know it, or rather as we don't know it, forming on Saturn's largest moon. Reading time 3 minutes On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft ...

Although occupation of dodecahedral cages by TBAB had not been previously reported, it was found that utilizing dodecahedral cages allows for higher packing density of TBAB. The results were shared in ...