Collagen is crucial for maintaining youthful, firm, and healthy skin by supporting elasticity and hydration. A decline in ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

A study published in December by Duke professor Rohit Singh and his team proposes a new computational model called antibody ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

EPFL scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

Introduction Definition of Peptides Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds, typically consisting of 2 to ...

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from ... In biological processes, peptide bonds are formed via reactive phosphate-containing intermediates ...