Biochemistry – Page 6
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OpinionOpening up a cellular black box
Working out how biomolecular condensates work may reveal a lot about the success or failure of different drugs
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ResearchProtein-shaped sweets help students understand complex molecular structures
Edible protein models that can be identified by mouth could make chemistry education more inclusive to blind and visually impaired students
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OpinionMabel FitzGerald and the mystery of oxygen sensing
Katharine Sanderson celebrates the tenacious and brilliant researcher who came tantalizingly close to describing oxygen sensing, a concept that earned the Nobel prize over 100 years later
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ResearchBlocking bacteria’s self-poisoning mechanism weakens their antibiotic resistance
Stopping bacteria from producing hydrogen sulfide in response to drugs could help overcome antimicrobial resistance
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OpinionFurin fundamentals
There’s no direct evidence for the lab leak hypothesis – and the biochemistry of the virus might not tell us much about it
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ResearchBiochemical mystery unfolds as elemental metals found in Alzheimer’s patients’ brains
In a discovery that raises more question than it answers, researchers have found zero-oxidation-state iron and copper deposits inside amyloid plaques
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ResearchNew class of biomolecule baffles scientists
GlycoRNAs found across several cell types and organisms
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ResearchChloroplasts enhanced with artificial dyes adsorb more solar energy
AIEgen-modified chloroplasts can adsorb ultraviolet radiation and increase the efficiency of photosynthesis
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OpinionFree radicals for post-translational modification
A technique for forming new carbon–carbon bonds at specific sites in proteins
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OpinionExploring the potential of nanoarchitectonics
Combining self-assembly techniques from across scientific disciplines could allow us to precisely build any material structure
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FeatureGetting to the root of soil nitrogen
The farming industry’s reliance on nitrogen compounds is altering the environment, but Ian Le Guillou finds a better understanding of the interplay between plants and microbes could help to reduce the impact
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OpinionRewards based on priority drive unnecessary competition
The story of Crispr illustrates how a focus on patents and publications can cause good people to act in unsavoury ways
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NewsOxford University to open antimicrobial research centre after £100m donation from Ineos
Petrochemical giant highlights dangers of antibiotic resistance
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NewsDecoding the virus – what we know about Sars-CoV-2 a year on
Scientists have never learnt so much about a pathogen in such a short time
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ResearchGoogle’s AI aces protein prediction competition
Deep-learning network AlphaFold2’s perfomance at predicting how proteins fold has caused great excitement in the scientific community
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FeatureHow does a cell know what kind of cell it should be?
Philip Ball investigates how cells use condensed ‘blobs’ to collect the molecules involved in regulating genes
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NewsFirst draft of the human proteome created
High quality data for more than 90% of the proteins in the body will aid medical research
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ResearchEntirely new way of sensing iron discovered in bacteria
Novel class of riboswitches can directly and selectively sense iron
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FeatureEngineering a handshake for proteins
Once considered undruggable, chemists are beginning to grasp protein–protein interactions, according to Ian Le Guillou