Water, organic molecules, and inorganic ions are the constituents of cells. Water constitutes the greatest fraction of the three, accounting for almost three-quarters of the total mass of a cell. The ...

In a discovery with wide-ranging implications, researchers recently announced that uniformly charged macromolecules -- or molecules, such as proteins or DNA, that contain a large number of atoms all ...

Biological macromolecules adopt complicated three-dimensional (3D) structures that are crucial to their function. Some macromolecules, such as enzymes, act alone to provide chemical environments that ...

Marc A. Hillmyer, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Macromolecules. He will ...

Macromolecules comprise a growing group of new pharmaceutical products with the potential to treat diseases that heretofore have had no effective therapeutic options. To date, the therapeutic ...