The National Deuteration Facility has developed a capability to use a flow chemistry process to increase efficiency, increase production capacity and reduce decomposition in the synthesis of ...

Tiny grains of cosmic dust may be quietly shaping the chemistry that leads to life. New laboratory experiments show that these minerals can accelerate reactions between simple interstellar gases – ...

A well-established technique, acid-base titration is an analytical method used to determine the concentration of an unknown acid or base. In practice, it involves adding a solution of known strength ...

Although the chemical processes necessary to support life—from breaking down food to copying DNA—would ordinarily take years or even centuries to complete, life functions on a timescale measured in ...

Rolls of brightly colored plastic. After it is used and discarded, polylactic acid could be used as a feedstock for making the amino acid alanine. Credit: Shutterstock One of the simpler amino acids, ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, unveiled a new modular way to combine three mix-and-matchable molecular pieces into new amino acid derivatives using an engineered enzyme ...

Hydrogen exchange (HX) experimentation has made major contributions to the understanding of dynamics and function in proteins, but the same is not true for nucleic acids. This has been due to a ...

Water, an environmentally friendly and benign reaction medium, has traditionally been underestimated for its use in organic synthesis because it offers limited substrate solubility and can lead to ...

Amino acids helped build RNA at the dawn of life, a new study shows. The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...