Scientists engineer bacteria-killing molecules from wasp venom A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has engineered powerful new antimicrobial molecules from toxic proteins found in wasp […]
‘Digital chemistry’ breakthrough turns words into molecules A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand will open up the digitisation of chemistry, scientists say. Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School […]
Researchers discover new molecules for tracking Parkinson’s disease For many of the 200,000 patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the United States every year, the diagnosis often occurs only after the appearance of severe symptoms […]
Hints of life on Venus: Scientists detect phosphine molecules in high cloud decks An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule—phosphine—in the […]
Programmable synthetic materials Artificial molecules could one day form the information unit of a new type of computer or be the basis for programmable substances. The information would be encoded in the spatial arrangement of […]
New study reveals a graphene sheet behaves ‘like a mirror’ for water molecules A recently published study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers sheds new light on how water interacts with the nanomaterial graphene, a […]