As global temperatures rise, it's imperative that plants can adapt to new and changing conditions. Michigan State University researchers from the Walker lab are looking at ways to give plants an ...

Plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels ...

There are many chemical methods for adding medicinally helpful fluorinated alkyl groups onto molecules, but doing so with high stereoselectivity can be a challenge, especially at remote positions.

Synthetic chemists can go around in circles trying to make the cyclic amides known as lactams. That’s because lactams with 4-, 5-, and 6-membered rings—known as β-, γ- and δ-lactams, respectively—are ...

Often described as “Goldilocks drugs,” macrocyclic peptides are smaller than biologics like antibodies but larger than small molecules. With their just-right size, macrocyclic peptides can travel into ...

A remarkable quality of bioengineering is that scientists can take biological processes honed by millions of years of evolution and use them to efficiently create drugs, chemicals and other products ...

Successful cancer surgery depends on a surgeon’s ability to remove tumors, while minimizing harm to healthy tissues. Surgeons currently use glowing dyes which mark cancer cells to help differentiate ...

Cancer is a universal issue which affects many people around the world. Many will turn to surgery in the hope a surgeon will be able to completely remove a tumor, leaving healthy tissues unaffected.