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Amino acids act as 'anti-salt': New insight into how small

Dr AF Saeed Dr AF Saeed 12th September 2025

Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have discovered a fundamental stabilizing effect Read More

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Measuring how molecules communicate: New method quantifies partial charges –

Dr AF Saeed Dr AF Saeed 21st August 2025

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new method to directly measure partial charges in molecules. The results, now published in Nature, provide new insights into molecular Read More

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Entangling molecules with a tiny motor – New Study

Dr AF Saeed Dr AF Saeed 1st August 2025

Science, Volume 389, Issue 6759, Page 454-455, July 2025. Summary Without knowing the specific article published on pages 454-455 of the July 2025 issue of Science, a detailed summary is impossible. However, a general summary about the journal can Read More

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Tracking molecules in the interstellar medium – New Study

Dr AF Saeed Dr AF Saeed 14th July 2025

Stars don’t form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially no light, and generally Read More

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Mice with a diverse human T cell receptor repertoire selected

Dr AF Saeed Dr AF Saeed 1st July 2025

Mice with a diverse human T cell receptor repertoire selected on multiple HLA class I molecules Summary Mice were engineered to express a diverse range of human T cell receptors (TCRs) selected based on their Read More