A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team has discovered a way to produce a special class of molecule that could open the door for new drugs to treat currently untreatable diseases.

Researchers have captured real-time "molecular movies" showing how an enzyme changes shape during catalysis. The study was ...

Figure 1: Chemical structure of amides and the conventional chemical method for amide bond synthesis. Figure 2: Representation of protein and peptide synthesis by biochemical and chemical methods. The ...