Chemists are rethinking lomaiviticins—potent killers of cancer cells and bacteria. A new study shows that the structures of these complex natural products, which are metabolites of marine bacteria, ...

The Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB, http://csdb.glycoscience.ru/) is a free curated repository storing various data on glycans of bacterial, fungal and plant ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held ...

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a technique that could help advance treatments in tissue engineering. The study, published in the journal Small, ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy transthyretin moves hormones through blood and spinal fluid, misfolded ...