A team of US researchers has gained new insights into how large protein molecules consistently fold themselves into useful shapes. Using a new approach to fluorescence microscopy, Hoi Sung Chung and ...

Chung’s group captured the transition period directly by improving the time resolution of a method called single-molecule ...

A research team led by Sahand Jamal Rahi at EPFL’s Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems has introduced a new ...

In the evolutionary history of life, the ability of a cell to separate its inner world from the external environment was an ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a new article specifies for the first time the levels ...

Researchers have developed a diagnostic panel that identifies cognitive decline by analyzing how blood proteins fold. This ...

Protein misfolding is a likely culprit in many degenerative disorders. Cystic fibrosis, for instance, is caused by mutations in the CFTR gene that prevent the eponymous protein from assuming its ...

Scientists in India have developed a new type of rice that contains three times more protein and has a lower glycaemic index.

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Houston Methodist scientists have uncovered an unexpected side of a protein best known for its link to brain diseases. The ...