Scientists designed synthetic proteins that shift shape, mimicking natural proteins to perform advanced biological tasks.

As concerns about waning antibiotic effectiveness grow, researchers are using unique tools to search for new ways to keep ...

Raising your own chickens for their eggs may sound like a money saving idea, but in the long run store-bought eggs are less ...

The Hidden Language of GlycansImagine a vast molecular conversation happening within and between cells—where sugar-based structures act as sophisticated messengers carrying critical biological ...

Researchers have engineered a compact, high-specificity IscB variant, NovaIscB, for safe, persistent in vivo epigenome ...

Cohesin is a protein that forms a ring-shaped complex which wraps and alters the DNA molecule shape. It moves through the DNA and creates specific loops in the genetic material which determine the ...

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 ...

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

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

AfCycDesign: Cyclic offset to the relative positional encoding in AlphaFold2 enables accurate structure prediction ... transition metal binding sites in proteins. It integrates geometric and ...

A pioneering scientific breakthrough has made it possible to extract proteins from preserved soft tissues, including human ...

we describe the 1.9 Å resolution structure of E. coli FhuD in complex with gallichrome. FhuD adopts a novel fold and represents a new class of iron binding ABC-type transport proteins.