Proteins and peptides form the cornerstone of cellular function, serving not only as essential catalysts and structural components but also as mediators of signalling and regulation in health and ...

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 ...

Texas A&M biochemistry student Dimitris Kalafatis '27 named a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholar for research on protein ...

A. Joshua Wand is in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA. It is useful to consider Pillai and ...

Tiny fragments could tell the story of life's beginnings. Genes are like a recipe that tells cells how to function. But the ...

These AI-designed proteins work as biosensors, reporting a measurable output when they detect their target ...

Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer’s disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and ...

An illustration of one of Grove Biopharma’s protein-like polymers in sky blue and bright yellow. These protein-like polymers may help target intractable cancer-causing proteins. Credit: Saeed Najafi, ...

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, ...

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can more accurately predict how proteins interact with one another—an advancement that could accelerate drug discovery and ...

Saint Louis University’s Protein Core is a shared-use core facility that supports expression, purification and analysis of reagent and preclinical proteins. The core provides instrumentation and ...