Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and ...

Rohini Subrahmanyam is a biologist-turned-science-writer with a background in neuroscience and developmental biology. She has written for Scientific American, Harvard Gazette, Live Science, among ...

Unlike in a hydrogen bond, the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen atoms don't have a preferred orientation—which is a key property of hydrogen bonds.

Amino acids are organic compounds that serve as the fundamental building blocks of proteins. They play a crucial role in the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs. Amino ...

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...

The chemical structure of uracil, showing its single-ring pyrimidine structure. Uracil forms hydrogen bonds with adenine in RNA, contributing to the molecule's structure and function. (Image: Public ...