In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the germ's shape. Because ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2024
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Form follows function, and this is especially true for life's building blocks—proteins. The folds and shape of molecular proteins reveal their function in supporting life.
Biotechnology
Aug 13, 2024
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Anyone who's tried to neatly gather a fitted sheet can tell you: folding is hard. Get it wrong with your laundry and the result can be a crumpled, wrinkled mess of fabric, but when folding fails among the approximately 7,000 ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 12, 2024
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While seeking to unravel how marine algae create their chemically complex toxins, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered the largest protein yet identified in biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2024
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Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify molecules that could serve as new drugs for mental health disorders. AI can be used to predict the three-dimensional structures of important receptors and thereby speed up the ...
Biotechnology
Aug 8, 2024
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Scientists have developed a new way of counting labeled proteins in living cells that could become a standard and valuable tool in the field of biomedical research.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2024
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Researchers at Michigan State University have discovered two proteins that work together to determine the fate of cells in plants facing certain stresses.
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2024
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Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2024
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EPFL researchers have developed a novel AI-driven model designed to predict protein sequences from backbone scaffolds, incorporating complex molecular environments. It promises significant advancements in protein engineering ...
Biotechnology
Aug 7, 2024
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To transcribe the information contained in our genes or to repair the dozens of breaks that occur daily in our DNA, our enzymes must be able to directly access the DNA to perform their functions. However, in the cell nucleus, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 7, 2024
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