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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Hassabis, 48, and Jumper, 39, created an artificial intelligence model that has predicted the structure of virtually all the ...

If you’re going to make dairy proteins via precision fermentation, it makes sense to start with the highest value ones, says ...

Verticals that will be most impacted by innovative developments in technology and science are the disciplines of medicine, ...

A major paradigm shift was required to routinely design novel proteins with desired structures. This approach made a huge leap in 2010 when Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, a company aiming to ...

British computer scientist Professor Demis Hassabis has won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "revolutionary" work ...