For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Around 80 percent of proteins involved in diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative illnesses do not have a stable structure. These proteins, known ...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a highly contagious human herpesvirus responsible for chickenpox upon primary infection and ...

This valuable work provides new insights into the role of lysine acetylation of alpha-synuclein, the protein involved in Parkinson's Disease. The evidence is mostly solid, but the claims around the ...

Peptide bonds, also known as amide bonds, are the covalent chemical bonds that connect individual amino acids to form ...

James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...

Developing casein proteins from precision fermentation is technical enough. It requires using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’ to produce proteins like casein, the most abundant protein in milk. And ...

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The proteins found in nature represent only a tiny fraction of the nearly limitless protein structures that could theoretically exist. By designing proteins de novo—from scratch—scientists can more ...

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In a new move, researchers have shown that protein design software can incorporate motion into its outputs. The resulting protein gives a wave with one arm as it binds and releases a calcium ion ...

In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.