Phytoestrogen is naturally found in many plants. Dietitians explain the impact on cancer risk, menopause symptoms and who should avoid foods with plant estrogen.

Others believe that lignin is a finite heteropolymer whose individual molecules differ in molecular size and chemical structure according to their location within wood cell walls. The ability to ...

What if wood became a high-tech material? Researchers have developed a semi-transparent version, combining strength and ...

As the world moves toward electrification to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the demand ...

In a perspective, Northwestern Engineering’s Chad Mirkin and Milan Mrksich argue that structural precision drives therapeutic ...

In a study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a research team integrated activity-based protein profiling ...

Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral ...

Building on previous research, a team successfully used plant-based ingredients to mimic calamari that matched the seafood’s ...

Chemists have confirmed a 67-year-old theory about vitamin B1 by stabilizing a reactive molecule in water — a feat long ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...

Scientists examined microscopic blobs of protein found in human cells has discovered that some morph from an almost honey-like substance to a hard candy-like solid. These mysterious droplets, known as ...

Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on ...