Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

In a new move, researchers have shown that protein design software can incorporate motion into its outputs. The resulting ...

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

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

The structure-function relationships of a β ... Here, the authors reconstitute a protein β-helix by design from an elementary sequence of 18 amino acids, which self-assembles into a self ...

One group of leading biologists has been doing research on a topic that on the surface sounds kind of boring, but when you ...

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

A study by researchers at the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, the Structural Biology research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and IBiTech–BioMMedA Group of Ghent ...

Researchers have captured a time-resolved video of a protein interaction essential to healthy brain development.

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA ...

In a landmark discovery, researchers have unveiled the highly dynamic and adaptable architecture of the mammalian pyruvate ...