A non-toxic coating developed by researchers at University of Toronto Engineering prevents proteins from sticking to surfaces ...

Protein‐polymer conjugates represent a dynamic class of hybrid materials that combine the inherent biological function and specificity of proteins with the versatile properties of synthetic polymers.

Scientists at Northwestern, and Case Western Reserve universities have developed the first polymer-based therapeutic for the genetic disorder Huntington’s disease, an incurable neurodegenerative ...

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, ...

When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don’t fight them — throw them in the cellular trash. In a new study, ...

When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don't fight them - throw them in the cellular trash. In a new study, ...

Science has long taken inspiration from the natural world, and few natural designs are as iconic as the helical shape that ...

Synthetic materials rarely mimic the dynamic helicity observed in biological systems like DNA and proteins, often forming ...

This may sound crazy, but scientists use blood to build soft neural interfaces in the brain, and then control them with light ...

Certain cancer-driving proteins resist nearly all existing treatments, making many aggressive cancers effectively untreatable. Researchers devised a strategy to use protein-like polymers called ...