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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Prof. Chii-Shen Yang's team at National Taiwan University resolved the molecular structure and discovered that HwMR, a ...

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 ...

Proteins are biology’s lead actors ... But this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry honored a real-world example of how AI is helping humans today with astounding discoveries in protein structure ...

Now, Young, also a professor of biology at the Massachusetts ... mutations might contribute to disease by changing protein localization. For example, a mutation could make a protein unable to ...

Proteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Our goal is to design a new generation of proteins that address ...