As an engineer and an entrepreneur, I truly believe blockchain technology is going to revolutionize the world. One of the biggest hurdles we need to tackle in the blockchain industry is scalability.

Last week, Adam Back and Austin Hill came out with an announcement on Let’s Talk Bitcoin, in which they announced their newest project: “sidechains”. The idea, they described, would allow for the ...

Proteins are made of peptides and peptides are made of amino acids. A group of experimentalists and theorists from the Weizmann Institute of Science investigated how amino acid side chains, peptide ...

A novel protein cage system can control and visualize orientational changes in aromatic side chains upon ligand binding. By inducing coordinated molecular changes, this approach enables precise ...

Novel protein cage systems can control and visualize orientational changes in aromatic side chains upon ligand binding, as reported by researchers at the Institute of Science, Tokyo. By inducing ...

Figure 4: Key stages for the synthesis of 'head-to-side-chain' depsipeptides, as depicted for pipecolidepsin A, and diagrams showing the related steps in the procedure. (i) It is important to start ...

Side-Chain Theory, circa 1900 Paul Ehrlich came up with an explanation for cellular interactions based on receptors, earning a Nobel Prize and the title "Father of Modern Immunology"—only to have his ...