Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Malignant melanoma is one of the most dangerous forms of cancer. Around half of melanomas and about 7% of all other cancers ...

Proteins carry out most of the work in the cell, and predicting their structure, function and interactions remains one of the ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure—and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of chemical characteristics. Many ...

A nerve cell resembles a vast tree with branches that communicate with thousands of other cells. To function, it depends on a ...

In the wee hours of an October morning, David Baker, a protein biologist at the University of Washington (UW), received the most-awaited phone call in a scientist’s career. Halfway around the world, ...

Efforts to unlock the mysteries of proteins, building blocks of life, have earned three scientists the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The prize goes to David Baker “for computational protein design,” ...

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed an optical method that follows the shape changes of a single protein ...

This Brush Up is sponsored by Quanterix. Learn more about tau biomarkers and clinical applications. Tau is a flexible protein that stabilizes the internal structure of neurons and supports ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of the chemical characteristics. Many ...

Mutations to the protein SPOP are widespread in cancer, yet many remain poorly understood. To address this gap, St. Jude ...