Scientists solve a biological mystery about the common genesis of many serious diseases, discovering a trigger to important biologic responses such as the control of…
Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered a new pathway in insulin resistance and show that a newly discovered small-molecule inhibitor can interrupt this pathway and…
Using a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from the Iceman Ötzi, scientists were able to identify numerous brain proteins, as well as proteins from blood…
Researchers have identified a protein in the blood of mice and humans that may prove to be the first effective treatment for a form of…
A newly published study from Yale University looks at longhorn beetle Rhagium inquisitor and its ability to supercool to below -25°C, examining the unusual structure…
Focusing on a protein called von Willebrand factor (VWF), a team of scientists discovered how stresses of blood flow in small blood vessels of the…
Using a high performance computing infrastructure, a team of researchers developed the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system that…
A newly published study details how researchers turned an ordinary protein into an artificial enzyme, a biological catalyst capable of joining two segments of RNA….
The enzyme protein kinase M-ζ (PKM-ζ) was thought to be a fixture of long-term memory, as its inhibition could erase old memories, whilst adding it…
A rogue protein involved in Parkinson’s disease that wrecks catastrophic damage has been tracked down by researchers in work that could help find a new…
Proteins fold spontaneously into precise conformation, time after time, optimized by evolution. Yet given the number of contortions possible for chains of amino acids, dictating…
A team of scientists designed proteins from scratch to have a high affinity and high specificity for targets on flu viruses, validating the two best…
By using common baker’s yeast as a model system, Harvard researchers discovered how the key motor protein dynein interacts with a molecule called Lis1. Molecular…
A new study from MIT looks at what happens when the SIRT1 protein is missing from adipose tissue in mice, finding that SIRT1 protects from…
A team of researchers at Yale University have identified a molecular signal that allows potentially therapeutic proteins to hitch a ride into cells using vesicles,…
While working with mice, scientists at Yale University found that the protein Chitinase 3-like-1 (Chi3l1) was crucial in regulating the immune response to Streptococcus pneumonia,…
A team of scientists discovered that spaceflight suppressed the accumulation of toxic proteins and a group of genes, which when lowered in worms back on…
Two different studies published in the journal Nature reveal that cancers can resist destruction by drugs with the help of proteins recruited from surrounding tissues….