Bio-SANS gave scientists the ability “to peer at what is happening at the nanometer-length scale to the structure of the membrane,” said Jon Nickels, principal investigator for the project and ...

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A majority of proteins must fold correctly in order to attain biological function. Although the protein folding information is encoded within the nascent polypeptide chain, newly synthesized ...

Why is knowing the atomic structure of molecules useful? Learn why, and how information like this about protein structure is shared through a publicly available database. Scientists use a variety ...

They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and ...

The more researchers examine RNA, the more surprises they continue to uncover. What have we learned about RNA structure and function so far? Although RNA is a single-stranded molecule, researchers ...