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 ...

The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as their presence in ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

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

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 ...

Grove Biopharma has raised a $30 million series A round to develop Bionic Biologics, also known as protein-like polymers (PLP ...

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

This structure has two helical chains each coiled round the same axis (see diagram). We have made the usual chemical assumptions, namely, that each chain consists of phosphate di-ester groups ...

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 ...