Common in nature and found in DNA and amino acids, chiral molecules are asymmetric with a structure that’s different from its mirror image. Chiral amino acids are “left-handed” and cannot be swapped ...

For some years now, John McGeehan, a biologist and the director of the Center for Enzyme Innovation in Portsmouth, England, has been searching for a molecule that could break down the 150 million tons ...

Lasers are used to carry out functions ranging from reading a bar code label at the grocery store to shooting down enemy missiles in space. Now, chemists at Purdue University are using lasers to coax ...

This week, I noticed that a collection of servers, which can predict the shapes of RNA molecules, have been upgraded, and their new website looks great. Paste any RNA sequence into the University of ...

The Shapes of Organic Molecules The new Nobel prize in chemistry was given to men who showed that certain molecules can assume different shapes simply by rotations around single bonds. Such ...

(Nanowerk News) Water is a familiar substance that is present virtually everywhere. The properties of the first few layers of water molecules in contact with the surface of materials (called 'surface ...

Mimicking biological structures, such as the interesting shapes and functions of fruits and seeds, using molecules and molecular assemblies is a great challenge for many Synthetic Chemists. There have ...

Some of the innermost workings of molecules are being revealed for the first time. When molecules gain an electric charge, their structure can change, and now we have watched it happen. Shadi Fatayer ...

Understanding the various molecular interactions and structures that arise among surface water molecules would enable scientists and engineers to develop all sorts of ...