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Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

The researchers used advanced cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the atomic structure of a packed ... conformation enables unique molecular interactions, including hydroxyproline ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

Stuart Rice, who specialized in physical chemistry during a long career as a professor and researcher at the University of Chicago, has died.

As the world makes the transition to renewable energy sources, the demand for efficient, long lasting batteries has grown and ...

From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a driving force in human history.

A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore and Donostia International Physics ...