In the fight against diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, scientists have long struggled to predict how certain ...

Dr. Yee's group published the first crystal structure of the human prion protein, whose conformational transformation to a pathogenic form is believed to be important in an intriguing family of ...

Three rare, fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases were reported in Hood River County, Oregon. Two people have died. There's ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure ... to prion-like spread of pathological protein and ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

Researchers have uncovered the 3D structure of RBP3, a key protein in vision, revealing how it transports retinoids and fatty ...

Nature has developed a unique structure as a scaffold for almost all nerve cells: the membrane-associated periodic skeleton ...

Scientists examined microscopic blobs of protein found in human cells has discovered that some morph from an almost honey-like substance to a hard candy-like solid. These mysterious droplets, known as ...

The researchers identified the structure of this machine, the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC), and 50 years since its discovery, have shown how it operates like the lock on a canal to transport ...