At 10 one-millionths of a meter wide, a single human cell is tiny. But something even smaller exerts an enormous influence on everything a cell does: proton concentration, or pH. On the microscopic ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have created a database that provides updated predicted structures on a ...

Scientists have discovered how the amino acid leucine boosts the body’s energy production by protecting key mitochondrial ...

EMBL scientists have improved a protein analysis technique, significantly expanding its use and making it 100 times faster.

Creating synthetic proteins is a promising avenue of study, but could we take shortcuts on nature’s blueprint and make more efficient versions? Scientists at UC Berkeley have found that simpler combos ...

Scientists at Tokyo Tech have developed a new cell-free protein crystallization (CFPC) method that is expected to advance research in structural biology. The technique will enable the analysis of ...

In the early 1990s, protein biologists invested in solving a challenge that had riddled them for decades. The protein folding problem centered on the idea that biologists should be able to predict the ...

Around 25 million Americans have a rare genetic disease, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective ...

Proteins are the heavy-lifters of biochemistry. These beefy molecules act as building blocks, receptors, processors, couriers and catalysts. “Proteins are the molecular machines that power all life on ...

Inspired after a childhood illness, OSU junior Riitvek Baddireddi is pursuing a career as a cancer researcher and cardiothoracic surgeon.

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules ...