For decades, scientists have understood proteins primarily through two defining features: their amino acid sequence and their ...

Cornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move ...

New research from the University of Oklahoma identifies a protein in liver cells that appears to help drive the development ...

All cells metabolize nutrients to generate the energy and molecular building blocks required for survival. Cancer cells, however, do it differently. To sustain rapid growth and adapt to hostile ...

Cell surface proteins are essential regulators of cell communication, mediating immune activation, cell adhesion, receptor ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...

As we age, the composition and function of proteins in the brain change, affecting how well our brain performs later in life—influencing memory, responsiveness, and the risk of neurodegenerative ...

For those outside the chemistry cognoscenti, the announcement might have seemed little more than researchers patting each other on the back. But the question of protein folding had plagued scientists ...

As proteins are made in a cell, they are folded into the 3-D structure that allows them to work, but sometimes this process ...