"I came to realize that this was a tremendously smart man who was not confined to the biological sciences at all," a friend ...

From finding new antibiotic candidates to studying the insides of cells, snapping molecules together "like Lego" has ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry signals within it and to the rest of the body. Growing axons "wire up" the brain ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

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Our department offers doctorate opportunities in a range of traditional research areas, including analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, as well as biochemistry. Within these areas, ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.