Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For ...

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the clumping of proteins called Tau, which form tangled fibrils in the brain.

‘This basic research set the grounds for structure-based drug design approaches that could be beneficial for cancer treatments’ Dr. Cyril Dominguez, University of Leicester A team from the University ...

Many people still don’t understand how protein works, why it matters or the best ways to get enough of it in their diet. Here ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

The paradigm in nutritional science is shifting from studying isolated nutrients to understanding the complex food matrix.

Scientists from Scripps Research have uncovered new structures of transthyretin, a protein that moves important hormones like thyroxine through blood and spinal fluid. Misfolded versions of the ...

A team from Chongqing University and Zhejiang University has developed an AI tool that generated 7245 entirely new proteins through computer-based design. These lab-ready proteins are engineered to ...