Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

These protein designers understand plain language and structural biology, and act as guides for scientists ... More elaborate prompts that included a protein’s function and examples of similar ...

It is unclear whether protein misfolding and aggregation ... helped to reveal new mechanisms and pathways in cell biology. One notable example is the discovery of presenilin and its strange ...

Editor’s note: Nathan Ahlgren is an assistant professor of biology at Clark University ... We also make them in our body. For example, other animals make proteins and we eat those.

DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein so far catalogued by science, cracking one of the grand challenges of biology in just 18 months thanks to an artificial intelligence ...

Rather than causing instability, some missense mutations led to different changes in proteins. For example, some of the mutations behind Rett syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder ...

Take pharmacology, for example; almost all pharmaceutical drugs ... "This computational work represents a stunning advance on the protein-folding problem, a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology. It ...

The so-called AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, built in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ... in the United Kingdom, for example, announced in July 2021 that ...

Huntington's disease is an example of a triplet repeat disorder ... non-scientists and the visually impaired interested in proteins and molecular biology," Miller said. "When I was a kid, I ...