Associate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas. Age: 43
Associate Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas. Age: 43
March 2013 Scientist to Watch Emily Scott explains her work on a lung enzyme that interacts with nicotine and may serve as a drug target.
Animals and plants come in a dizzying array of colors. Current research is cracking into the remarkable structures behind nature's artistic display.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
A newly discovered family of tubulins—members of the cytoskeleton—encoded by bacteriophages plays a role in arranging the location of DNA within virus’s bacterial host.
The DNA forms known as G-quadruplexes are finally discovered in human cells.
A bacterial protein refolds itself into two dramatically different shapes with distinct roles.
Evidence reshaping the structure of a protein linked to Parkinson’s suggests a new mechanism for the formation of the disease’s characteristic protein aggregates.