The Curious Wavefunction

There's an interesting bit of writing out in the journal ChemMedChem by Jean-Louis Kraus, a medicinal chemist in France who has worked o...

The biophysicist David Eisenberg of UCLA recently published a paper in which his group surveyed what they called the "amylome", t...

One of the questions I have pondered in the past is why the functional form of a protein should correspond to its most thermodynamically sta...

One of the more important paradigm shifts in our understanding of the Alzheimer’s disease-causing amyloid protein in the last few years has ...

A New York Times article describes a study conducted by the NIH that basically asked scientists to simply sift through the massive evidence...

As Churchill would have said, beta-amyloid is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. For years now, the "amyloid hypothesis...

One of the conceptual shifts that the study of Alzheimer's disease has seen in the past few years is the realization that the long-studi...

A couple of days ago, an American man in Switzerland became the first human being to have his assisted suicide filmed and broadcasted on te...

Head slumped forward, eyes closed, she could be dozing — or knocked out by the pharmacological cocktails that dull her physical and psychic ...

One of the most significant, interesting and yet poorly understood effect in chemistry and biology is the hydrophobic effect. An important m...

Following on the heels of the headline-making Nature publication that demonstrated that NSAIDs (Non-steroidal AntiInflammatory Drugs) unique...

There always seems to be something new emerging in Alzheimer's disease research. In the last few years, at least one widely accepted hyp...