Using powerful supercomputers, a team of physicists has found that the quantum property of electrons called "spin" needs to be considered to obtain a picture of how many biochemical reactions take ...

University of Houston associate professor of chemistry, Vassiliy Lubchenko, is reporting a new finding in Nature Communications on how sickle cells are formed. Lubchenko reports that droplets of ...

A hemoglobin electrophoresis test is a blood test used to measure and identify the different types of hemoglobin in your bloodstream. Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells responsible for ...

Do you enjoy breathing air? You should spare a thought once in a while for heme, an iron-containing molecule essential to all organisms engaged in an air-breathing lifestyle. Heme molecules are most ...

Blood testing detects the presence of harmful substances in a patient's blood that could cause severe medical complications during treatment, while taking medication, and pre-and-post surgical ...

The title of this one won’t win any prizes, but it is otherwise a nicely put together online set of information about biochemistry. Organized for teaching a course at the University of Brescia in ...

Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2015), pp. 153-161 (9 pages) Determination of hematological and biochemical parameters provides important data to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Chemists who have trouble predicting how some large, complex biological molecules will react with others may soon have a solution from the world of computational quantum physics ...