Yale chemists have synthesized a complex, potentially cancer-fighting molecule found in sea sponges discovered off the coast of South Korea. The work, described in the journal Science, sets the stage ...

Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins are latent in the cytoplasm until activated through receptor-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation — often, but not exclusively by kinases ...

Biological physics is a branch of physics that deals with systems of a biological nature, from the scale of biological molecules to whole organisms and ecosystems. Biological physics typically uses ...

In 2007, scientists published a paper that laid out a recipe for a new type of biochemistry. The method would allow scientists to see what was happening in organisms in real time. Carolyn Bertozzi, ...

Step into our online science lab and learn more about states of matter. Interact with the activity to see what happens when different substances change state. There are three main states of matter: ...

Chances are you've seen an illustration of DNA's double-helix structure and even pictures of the chromosomes that comprise the human genome. But where and how does the famous double helix fit into ...