Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm ...

Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless chemical compound comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen that is widely used in agriculture and in ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

A research team presents an overview of recent advances in the microbial biosynthesis of L-tryptophan (L-Trp) and its structurally diverse derivatives, highlighting how synthetic biology and metabolic ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

Precisely controlling the thickness of two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) is challenging. Now, crystalline monolayer and bilayer 2DPs are synthesized by embedding macrocyclic molecules in the polymer ...