And there is actually a scientific reason behind why halloumi cheese makes this sound. The main actors in the creation of the ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may be best known for their job ferrying the genetic information encoded in DNA to a cell's ...

In fact, each gene in cellular DNA contains the code for a unique protein structure. Not only are these proteins assembled with different amino acid sequences, but they also are held together by ...

But not all target proteins were receptive to this method, called structure-based drug design. The 3-D structure of many proteins remained unavailable, and many important proteins could not be ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

The latest version of Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs’ AlphaFold model can predict the structure and relationships not only of proteins, but “all of life’s molecules”, according to its ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. On the same day that the AlphaFold2 paper was published, Baker and his colleagues released an independent, freely accessible alternative that predicts protein ...

Unlike their well-known, folded counterparts, intrinsically disordered proteins lack a single, stable three-dimensional structure. Instead, like Proteus, they take on many different conformations. 1 ...

University of Iowa-led study has revealed the unexpected structure adopted by the DNA repair protein RAD52 as it binds and protects replicating DNA in dividing cells. A University of Iowa-led ...

By studying a minimal synthetic version of the full-length human tau, scientists can better recreate the fibril structure containing misfolded tau proteins. This potentially could lead to targeted ...

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision - and discovered that it is much more dynamic than previously thought. RBP3 not only changes ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different proteins have different three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional shape of a ...