Emerging protein-design competitions aim to sift out the functional from the fantastical. But researchers hope that the real ...

Scientist Michel Brahic's new book delves into the world of prions, the culprits behind some of the scariest illnesses around ...

Recent studies in mice suggest that how the egg cells hold onto and get rid of their proteins may be key to this survival. Although most proteins are renewed every few days, two studies show that some ...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won this year's Nobel prize in chemistry. Jamie Durrani investigates the origins ...

Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread and more. But ribosome variety ...

are among the most difficult and exciting problems in cell biology.Three recent studies have made a significant contribution to this area byidentifying new proteins, called LAP proteins ...

Your hormones are made out of proteins; so is your hair. Proteins are so important because they are so versatile. They are able to undertake a vast array of different structures and functions ...

The team developed a high-throughput imaging platform to assess the influence of nearly 3,500 mutations on protein location. They found that roughly one in six disease-causing mutations led to ...

You might recall from high school biology that proteins are made up of amino acids strung together like beads on a necklace. The exact order of the amino acids, or the protein sequence, determines the ...

Long-lived proteins in the mouse ovary may help preserve fertility well into adulthood, providing insights into ovarian aging ...

A new experimental method allows researchers to dissect how certain proteins, called pioneer factors, can bind to selective ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet, together with Pixelgen Technologies, have developed and applied a technique that makes it possible to map proteins in individual cells in a completely new way.