On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Poxviruses have a long history in human disease as well as medicine: The first-ever vaccine was developed to protect against ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence framework that can redesign ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps explain how these tumors resist environmental stress and thrive in acidic, low ...

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their breakthrough work predicting and designing the structure of proteins, the ...

Malignant melanoma is one of the most dangerous forms of cancer. Around half of melanomas and about 7% of all other cancers ...

When a protein folds, its string of amino acids wiggles and jiggles through countless conformations before it forms a fully folded, functional protein. This rapid and complex process is hard to ...

A lot of effort has gone into finding ways to minimize or eliminate off-target edits. In a recent issue of Nature, ...

Automated, detergent-free purification preserves native membrane protein structure while supporting more reliable target ...

In Greek mythology, Proteus, son of Poseidon and prophetic shepherd of sea-beasts, could foretell the future. The elusive sea god was difficult to capture as he assumed many forms—a lion, a serpent, ...