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 ...

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 ...

the plastic parts are the proteins, limited in number, each with a defined form. The instructions are the regulatory RNAs. With the same parts, you can build either a simple or complex structure.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the ...

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

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.

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 ... Proteins are biology’s lead actors.