A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion.

Protein plays a critical role in a child’s growth, immune function, and overall health. Recognising the signs of protein ...

This useful study reports a method to detect and analyze a novel post-translational modification, lysine acetoacetylation (Kacac), finding it regulates protein metabolism pathways. The study unveils ...

Gelatin gives food products like jellies and cakes texture, chewiness, and stability. Because gelatin comes from collagen (a protein), it is completely made up of amino acids. The exact amino acids in ...

More information: Vineeta Kaushik et al, CryoEM structure and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses of porcine retinol-binding protein 3, Open Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsob.240180 Journal ...

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision - and discovered that it is much more dynamic than previously thought. RBP3 not only changes ...

This revision of important work is a versatile addition to the chemical protein modifications and bioconjugation ... 2021). Due to its unique structure and chemistry, proline was previously considered ...

Abstract: RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play a crucial role in regulating biological ... By enhancing masked language modeling with secondary structure construction and binding function prediction ...