For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

A molecular robot consisting of biomolecules, such as DNA and protein, has now been developed by a team of scientists. A research group at Tohoku University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and ...

Scientists have discovered a method to transform mesoscopic molecular assemblies into dimensionally distinct out-of-equilibrium structures.

Helping to make creation of nano-sized structures more user-friendly, scientists have designed single-stranded DNA and RNA (ssDNA and ssRNA) that can fold into desired shapes on command, and at an ...

All the information about a person’s health (e.g., their exposure to chemicals, their inherited risks, their current illnesses) lies within their molecules, according to scientists. Thus, a team of ...

Researchers capture exciton movement inside single CuPc nanofibers and show how molecular packing and defects shape energy ...

Molecular shape recognition for larger guest molecules (typically over 1 nm) is a difficult task because it requires cooperativity within a wide three-dimensional nanospace coincidentally probing ...

Sure, the world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. It turns out that most organic molecules—the kind of chemicals that make food tasty, perfumes fragrant, and life alive—derive ...