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ResearchCracking enzyme structure offers new way to treat rare heart diseases
Solution was found by combining protein with its chaperone
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Research
Genes that make lemons sour revealed
When life gives you lemons, mutate their proton pumps to make them sweeter
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Research
The protein crystallisation influencer
Naomi Chayen discusses her career manipulating phase diagrams to produce high-quality protein crystals
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Research
Genetically engineered yeast brews up heady mix of natural and unnatural cannabinoids
Biotech yeast makes low-cost, high-quality THC and CBD – and cannabinoids never seen before – without growing cannabis plants
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Carbon-fixing enzyme 10 times more abundant than previously thought
Calculations conclude there are 0.7 billion tonnes of rubisco in the world, an order or magnitude more than past estimates
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Building block approach creates new metalloproteins
Protein modules can be connected by disulfide linkages while varying the metal ions
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Podcast
Nitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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Research
Eight-letter genetic code hints at how alien life might evolve
Synthetic DNA shows that four bases might not be the only way for life to go
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News
Florida city bans sunscreens with chemicals thought to harm coral
Popular tourist destination Key West joins Hawaii and Palau in prohibiting sale of suntan lotions with oxybenzone and octinoxate
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Review
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Teenage Kicks - a cognitive neuroscientist explains why teenagers are the way they are
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Podcast
Melarsoprol
Cases of sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis – are in decline, dropping 86% in Africa between 2000 and 2014. Gege Li explores the role that this toxic, arsenic-based medication has to play.
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News
Personalised medicine has failed to live up to the hype, researchers claim
Predictions that Human Genome Project would usher in an era of tailored therapies have largely failed to come true
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Podcast
Omega-3 fatty acids
Many consume cod liver oil due to 'a vague sense we should be taking them for something' – but what to the omega-3 fatty acids actually do?
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Research
Alzheimer’s linked to infection of the brain by gum disease bacterium
Drug firm is developing treatment to inhibit bacterial enzymes believed to be damaging important protein
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Synthetic molecules fold up into abiotic proteins
Compound that self-assembles into giant folded ring could help scientists design bespoke abiotic proteins
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Opinion
Chiral curiosities
The challenges posed by asymmetry go hand in hand with fascinating insights into developmental biology
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Review
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of his journey from physics student to chemistry Nobel laureate
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Podcast
Book Club – Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
2009 Nobel prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan takes us on a personal and professional journey to uncover the secrets of the ribosome
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