Tinkering with molecular ‘backbones’ holds promise for drug discovery A method to edit the backbones of molecules allows chemists to modify ring-shaped chemical structures with greater ease.

Hero shrews have some of the weirdest backbones in the animal kingdom -- they're incredibly strong, with stories of a 0.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its back. No one knows ...

Reveca Torres' non-profit Backbones has worked to build community for people with spinal cord injuries for more than a decade. This week, she got the surprise of a lifetime: a $1 million prize ...

He says that in contrast to methods for modifying peptide backbones that his lab team and others have reported, the method appears to be work independent of a protein’s amino acid sequence.

In the competitive human world, a common platitude says that a man needs “backbone” to succeed. In the competitive animal world it is different. Scientists have other criteria than fame, money ...

Our backbones helped us and other vertebrate animals conquer the oceans, and move onto land and into skies. Until now, the early history of the group have been a bit of a mystery, but a new ...