Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

A pioneering scientific breakthrough has made it possible to extract proteins from preserved soft tissues, including human ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...

Researchers led by Université de Montréal pathology and cell-biology professor Marc Therrien have identified major structural ...

Newly discovered dibilinoxanthinin binds both yellow- and blue-hued molecules to camouflage upland green bush crickets ...

Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, have ...

Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During mitosis, centromeres ...

The central dogma of molecular biology is that the one ... AlphaFold (Panel B) takes as input the 1D sequence of a protein of unknown structure and a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of many ...

Most of those 20 have distinctive chemical properties ... into a complex three-dimensional structure. That structure is essential for the protein's function. Typically, figuring out the structure ...

chemical compounds that can interact with one another in many ways to take on an enormous number of possible three-dimensional shapes. Figuring out a single protein’s structure, or solving the ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have determined the molecular structure of a RAS-pathway protein called SHOC2 and two other proteins it ...

This protein structure is part of a huge molecular structure in the human body. More than a thousand proteins form a pore through the membrane surrounding the cell nucleus. Almost two decades ...