To address this relationship between structure and function, structural biology makes use of some fundamental ... On the other hand, fibrous proteins have elongated shapes, are relatively simple from ...

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

CEO of DeepMind Demis Hassabis claims that discovering a protein structure - which used to take years frequently- is now nearly as simple as ... first by NewScientist, Biology has struggled ...

A study by researchers at the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, the Structural Biology research group ...

available in its AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. The database was built together with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, an international public research institute that already ...

A study has found that an ancient protein motif that binds to nucleic acids is functionally "ambidextrous." This means that ...

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 ...

Proteins are the doers of biology. In the human body, they perform most of the work in cells and are required for the structure, function and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs.

Researchers have discovered that mutations affect protein stability following remarkably simple rules ... can unpredictably affect the whole structure made us use incredibly complex models ...