UT Southwestern discovery could lead to a novel approach for treating heart disease and fatty liver disease. Two researchers ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

Researchers have created nanoparticles that can remove disease-driving proteins while also delivering a chemotherapeutic or ...

Chung’s group captured the transition period directly by improving the time resolution of a method called single-molecule ...

Protein activity can be precisely regulated via subtle changes in temperature using heat-sensitive switches. Underlying this capability is a novel modular design strategy developed by researchers at ...

A new collaboration between EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University has made millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures ...

A protein long studied for its role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia now appears to serve a second, equally critical function, safeguarding the integrity of human DNA.

Protein misfolding and aggregation are key features observed in numerous neurodegenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The oligomers formed during the aggregation process ...

The membrane that encases a biological cell is not simply a barrier; it is chock full of proteins involved in all sorts of critical biological functions. To really understand what membrane proteins ...

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Researchers found a rare example of an ancient protein that can still function in a molecular mirror world – offering new clues about the evolutionary history of proteins that bind to nucleic acids.