John R. Jefferson, professor of chemistry at Luther College, authored “Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach,” a 338-page textbook that bridges the disciplines of ...

ABSTRACT: This is a paper in a series of reviews that discusses agricultural and industrial carcinogens and cancer resulting from the ingestion of carcinogens in food and pharmaceutical formulations.

Kenneth J. Breslauer’s research has touched different aspects of society from improving the development of medicine to treat disease to making it easier to solve criminal cold cases Kenneth J.

Born in Beijing in 1954, Gao came of age during China’s Cultural Revolution, a time when academic opportunities were severely restricted. At age 16, she was assigned to work in a clothing factory—but ...

David Leitner, Reynold Clayton Fuson Professor in Chemistry and a Regents Research Professor was named Foundation Professor this year. Leitner, who has worked at the University for nearly 25 years, ...

The film "The Colloidal State" explores the concept of colloids, which are materials in a dispersion where small particles of one substance are distributed throughout another. It distinguishes ...

Ben Koby computes new ways to develop potential drug candidate molecules. When the Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-Finding Experiments (CACHE) Drug Discovery Challenge #1 was announced, he ...

Illustration of an AMPA receptor and glutamate. Credit: Edward Twomey, Johns Hopkins Medicine Scientists used advanced cryo-EM imaging to reveal how glutamate activates brain receptors, paving the way ...

In 2014, I was an equities trader on Wall Street. Drained by the long hours, it eventually became clear that the job and the lifestyle just wasn't for me. Prior to finance, I worked as a tutor and a ...

The finding of a new study could advance the development of new drugs that block or open such signaling channels to treat conditions as varied as epilepsy and some intellectual disorders. In an effort ...

#CryoEM, is helping scientists see how #glutamate, a major neuron-to-neuron signaling molecule, opens a channel and acts like a pore that takes in charged particles. @McGovernMed @UTHealthHouston › ...

Every cell in the body normally has its fixed place as part of a tissue structure. Except for a few cell types, such as blood or immune cells. But cancer cells also cross established boundaries, grow ...