A new study offers clues on the origins of life, providing data to support…
Browsing: Protein
Proteins are complex molecules made up of amino acids that perform a vast array of essential functions in all living organisms. They serve as the building blocks of tissues, enzymes that catalyze biochemical reactions, messengers for cellular communication, and much more. Research into proteins spans fields like molecular biology, medicine, and biotechnology, driving advances in understanding diseases, developing therapies, and engineering novel biomaterials. This page showcases the latest discoveries and studies involving protein structure, function, and applications across the life sciences.
Focusing on a protein called von Willebrand factor (VWF), a team of scientists discovered how…
Using a high-performance computing infrastructure, a team of researchers developed the first versatile and modular…
A newly published study details how researchers turned an ordinary protein into an artificial enzyme,…
The enzyme protein kinase M-ζ (PKM-ζ) was thought to be a fixture of long-term memory,…
A rogue protein involved in Parkinson’s disease that wrecks catastrophic damage has been tracked down…
Proteins fold spontaneously into precise conformation, time after time, optimized by evolution. Yet given the…
A team of scientists designed proteins from scratch to have a high affinity and high…
Researchers that claimed that the GFAJ-1 bacterium had a preference for arsenic instead of phosphorous…
By using common baker’s yeast as a model system, Harvard researchers discovered how the key…
A new study from MIT looks at what happens when the SIRT1 protein is missing…
A team of researchers at Yale University has identified a molecular signal that allows potentially…
While working with mice, scientists at Yale University found that the protein Chitinase 3-like-1 (Chi3l1)…
A team of scientists discovered that spaceflight suppressed the accumulation of toxic proteins and a…
Two different studies published in the journal Nature reveal that cancers can resist destruction by…
A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab has discovered the mechanism behind the RNA-guided…
A newly published study describes how a cell reorganizes its infrastructure to heal a wound,…
Using both X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, UCLA biochemists have examined the structure…