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Nucleosides and nucleotides are two types of organic molecules that play crucial roles in all living organisms. They are the fundamental building blocks of nucleic acids, which are the molecules responsible for storing and transmitting genetic information. Without these tiny heroes, life as we know it wouldn't exist.

Nucleosides: The Basic Units

Imagine a single Lego brick. That's essentially what a nucleoside is. It's a simple yet elegant structure made of two components:

• A five-carbon sugar: Th

CD BioGlyco, a leading innovator in glycobiology products and services, announced the launch of its new line of high-quality enzymes specifically designed for research purposes. This comprehensive expansion features a diverse range of glycosyltransferases, exoglycosidases, and endoglycosidases, etc., empowering researchers with cutting-edge tools to delve deeper into the fascinating world of glycans.

Glycans, intricate sugar chains attached to proteins and lipids, play a pivotal role in numerous

Lifeasible, a leading provider of plant biotechnology and molecular biology services, recently enhanced its plant metabolite profiling services to meet diversified research needs.

Plant metabolites are small organic molecules produced by enzymes and play crucial roles in various plant biological processes, including growth, development, and stress response. Metabolite profiling provides valuable insights into plant physiology, biochemistry, and metabolic regulation, enabling researchers to gain

Plant diseases are a major threat to global food security, causing significant losses in crop yields and economic damage. Accurate and timely identification of plant diseases is essential for implementing effective control measures and minimizing crop losses.

Symptoms of Plant Disease

Plant diseases manifest in a variety of symptoms, including:

• Discoloration of leaves, such as spots, blotches, or wilting.
• Malformed leaves, such as curling, stunting, or distortion.
• Lesions or wounds on stems, fruits,

Creative Biostructure, a biotechnology company specialized in providing products and services in structural science, offers various thermodynamics analytical services to study the binding mechanism of biomolecules. Recently, Creative Biostructure enhanced its thermal gravimetric analysis services covering food, pharmaceuticals, polymers, as well as other materials.

Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TG or TGA) refers to a thermal analysis technique that measures the relationship between the mass of t

An unusual protein structure called a "corrugated beta sheet", first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using X-ray crystallography.

The new findings, published in Chemical Science in July, may enable the rational design of unique materials based on corrugated sheet-like structures.

Jevgenij Raskatov, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz and corresponding author of the paper, said: "Our st

Introduction of Ubiquitination

Proteins are frequently modified post-translationally through a process known as protein ubiquitylation, which involves one or more ubiquitin molecules (a polypeptide made up of 76 amino acids called ubiquitin) and a number of specialized enzymes. Protein ubiquitylation is the process of categorizing proteins, choosing target protein molecules, and specifically altering target proteins.

Ubiquitination is an important post-translational modification, and the ubiquiti

Evidence from a small clinical trial suggests that a variant of an immunotherapy for advanced blood cancers known as CAR-T could be used to treat myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease of the nervous system. The modified CAR-T therapy used by the scientists (short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cells) offered the potential to reduce symptoms of myasthenia gravis more durably and was well tolerated with no significant adverse effects. The study, published in The Lancet Neurology, was funded by