… , supramolecular chemistry, and de novo protein design under the direction of Professor
M. Reza Ghadiri. Research interests in bioorganic chemistry have prompted him to take up a …

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a popular Indian spice that has been used for centuries in herbal
medicines for the treatment of a variety of ailments such as rheumatism, diabetic ulcers, …

… :(3) Δ q c = C 0 − ( ϕ I − ϕ M ) e , where ϕ I is the effective work function of insulator and ϕ M
is the work function of metal. The effective capacitance C 0 depends on the characteristics of …

A biosensor has been developed based on induced wavelength shifts in the Fabry-Perot
fringes in the visible-light reflection spectrum of appropriately derivatized thin films of porous …

HOLLOW tubular structures of molecular dimensions may offer a variety of applications in
chemistry, biochemistry and materials science. Concentric carbon nanotubes 1,2 have …

The rapid emergence of bacterial infections that are resistant to many drugs underscores the
need for new therapeutic agents 1 , 2 , 3 . Here we report that six- and eight-residue cyclic d,…

LETTERS TO NATURE Page 1 LETTERS TO NATURE We have also prepared polymeric
microcapsules of length 20 pum, and have tested their catalytic activity when loaded with …

THE production of amino acids and their condensation to polypeptides under plausibly
prebiotic conditions have long been known 1,2 . But despite the central importance of molecular …

The general design criteria and synthesis of four new peptide-based solid-state tubular
array structures are described. Peptide nanotubes, which are extended tubular β-sheet-like …

In this paper, we present 1,2,3-triazole ε 2 -amino acids incorporated as a dipeptide
surrogate at three positions in the sequence of a known α-helical coiled coil. Biophysical …