Biochemistry

Black-and-white microscopy image of microspheres in snake’s solid “pee”, also known as urates.

Snakes Pee Solids. Chemical Analysis Suggests Why.

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Postdoc Portrait: Saeideh Fatemizadeh

A honeybee feeds on floral pollen, its natural diet, which has become scarce due to climate change.

Honeybees Fed Pollen Substitute with Vital Fats Raised More Young

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Brushing Up on Cell Culture Basics

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What Is GLP-1? The Science Behind GLP-1 Drugs

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Researchers React to the 2025 Nobel Prizes

Decoding the Metabolome with Mass Spectrometry

Decoding the Metabolome with Mass Spectrometry

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Development of Metal-Organic Frameworks

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Is Chromium an Essential Nutrient or Just Hype?

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Ants Can Ferment Milk to Make Yogurt. But How?

White smoke rises out of a glass of red wine, signifying the ashy taste in wines made from smoke-exposed grapes, also known as smoke taint.

Grapevine Bacteria May Remove Smoky Taste from Wine

A cartoon blue man, representing sparse autoencoders and the AI tools that work with them, untangles black jumbled thread, representing the convoluted and densely packed information in the neural networks of protein language models (PLMs).

Researchers Decode How Protein Language Models Think, Making AI More Transparent

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Universe 25 Experiment

Illustration of a hole in the shape of a dollar sign on a blue background. One character is falling into the hole at the bottom of the “S” while another individual is holding another up at the top of the “S”. The image represents the absence of funding for researchers in biotech with the cancellation of the SBIR/STTR program.

The Federal Government’s Research Innovation Lifeline Has Gone Dark

An illustration of an in vitro fertilized embryo, which researchers recently used to study maternal aneuploidy

Genetic Basis of Aneuploidy, Which Often Causes Pregnancy Loss, Revealed

A mouse aorta with immunofluorescence tagging of various molecules, emphasizing the close connection between vasculature and fat.

How Fat Type Shapes Hypertension Risk

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What Is the Amniotic Fluid Composed of?

The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the growing fetus.

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