Traditional approaches to drug development face trade-offs. Small molecules are cell permeable and easy to manufacture, but they often suffer from poor specificity and off-target effects. Antibodies ...

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Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...

The Southern blot, which detects specific DNA sequences, was one of the first molecular diagnostic methods to be widely adopted. 2 This type of probe-based assay uses a single-stranded oligonucleotide ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The "molecular machine" flagellum is essential for bacteria to cause ...

Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and all organisms adjust and react to the world around them. Subscribe to our ...

Scientists have developed molecular devices that can switch roles, behaving as memory, logic, or learning elements within the same structure. The breakthrough comes from precise chemical design that ...

Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis refers to a disorder in which the skin and connective tissues of the body start to thicken and harden because of the overproduction of a protein called collagen.

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune condition in which the protective insulation surrounding neurons in the brain and spinal cord is erroneously attacked. This can cause a wide variety of serious ...

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Scientists mapped the bacterial flagellum in atomic detail, revealing it as a target to disarm infections without killing bacteria or driving antibiotic resistance. (Nanowerk News) The ‘molecular ...