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

How do related proteins develop different functions? This is the question investigated by a research team involving Kiel ...

Four recent breakthroughs in proteomics that are changing the way we sequence, synthesize and discover proteins.

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. It involves the systematic identification, quantification, and analysis of the entire protein complement ...

Some proteins in human cells that are implicated in cancer also have causal roles in neurodevelopmental disorders, raising the possibility of repurposing targeted cancer therapies to help address ...

Proteins, the pillars of cellular function, often assemble into 'complexes' to fulfill their functions. A study reveals why this assembly often begins during the very process of protein synthesis or ...

Researchers have discovered that mammalian genes can combine to make chimeric mRNAs, which carry the instructions to produce ...

The highly conserved CCA end sequence of tRNAs has been shown to be less critical than expected, enabling a more tunable ...

Proteins are often studied at very low temperatures. In the case of cryo-electron microscopy, for example, proteins are frozen so they can be analyzed with powerful microscopes to learn more about ...