Researchers Shinjiro Takano, Yuya Hamasaki, and Tatsuya Tsukuda of the University of Tokyo have successfully visualized the ...

Since their discovery at Drexel University in 2011, MXenes — a family of nanomaterials with unique properties of durability, ...

Since the early 1800s, practitioners of organic chemistry have been fascinated with a group of plant-derived compounds called "alkaloids." Alkaloids contain at least one nitrogen atom among other ...

The video we’re featuring today is about ten minutes of his technique for synthesizing graphene. The video can be watched after the break.

Want to create a pathogen? Just download its gene sequence information from the Internet and place an order with a gene sequencing company. The genes arrive in the mail a couple of days later. Mix ...

At that rate synthesizing an E. coli genome – a relatively small genome of 4.6 million base pairs – would still cost over $1M, too much for the average lab to pay, especially as they typically build ...

Scientists create artificial cells that can express distinct genes in response to specific chemical signals, opening the door to new ways of delivering drugs.

Stainless steel, an iron-carbon alloy containing chromium and other metals, has a wide range of applications, including cookware, building materials, and medical implants. Due to its ...

One, published Monday in Nature Biotechnology by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), will be useful for synthesizing genes for biotechnology; the other ...

In the essay collection “Synthesizing Gravity,” Kay Ryan offers characteristically tart and idiosyncratic takes on writing, and on influences from Robert Frost to Marianne Moore.

This video segment, adapted from NOVA uses reenactment footage to show how chemist Percy Julian completed the total synthesis of physostigmine, an alkaloid derived from the Calabar bean that could ...