Scientists have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into a molecule used by bacteria for quorum sensing — a process by which bacteria communicate and subsequently control different cellular processes. …read more Source:: Science
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Mutations in this molecule may have helped mammoths tolerate the cold
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•Biomedical researchers have captured close-up views of TRPV3, a skin-cell ion channel that plays important roles in sensing temperature, itch, and pain. …read more Source:: Science
Researchers achieve ‘Olympic ring’ molecule breakthrough just in time for Winter Games
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•More than 7,000 miles away from the snowcapped peaks of PyeongChang, scientists in Florida have unlocked a novel strategy for synthesizing a highly versatile molecule called olympicene — a compound …read more Source:: Science
Chemical evolution: Progenitors of the living world
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•RNA was probably the first informational molecule. Now chemists have demonstrated that alternation of wet and dry conditions could have sufficed to drive the prebiotic synthesis of the RNA nucleosides …read more Source:: Science
In step toward controlling chemistry, physicists create a new molecule, atom by atom
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•Physicists have discovered a unique new molecule that could lead to many useful applications, and show how chemical reactions can be studied on a microscopic scale using tools of physics. …read more Source:: Science
Light drives single-molecule nanoroadsters
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•Scientists are driving three-wheeled, single-molecule “nanoroadsters” with light and, for the first time, seeing how they move. …read more Source:: Science