Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, such as those in taste buds, can interact with specific things in the environment ...

Visualization of glucose molecule "fingerprint information". (a) SNOM-TERS platform based on fiber vector light field; Background-free tip nanofocusing light source (b) and its electric field ...

Scientists have designed a new type of gas sensor that can tell apart "mirror image" versions of the same smell molecule, ...

Proteins spanning the membranes of cells of the intestine and kidney use sodium-ion gradients to take up glucose, enabling water absorption, too. The structures of these transporter proteins have now ...

If Sébastien Vidal sees a mistake in a published chemical structure—a missing double bond or a hydroxyl group drawn in the wrong configuration—it “hurts my eyes immediately,” he says. Vidal, an ...

Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with ...

Recent studies of asteroid Bennu samples, returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, have revealed surprising compounds that could inform our understanding of the early solar system and the ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...