Protein aggregates are associated with the development of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These are found more ...

A study offers new insight into how insulin-producing cells could become more resilient to stress as diabetes progresses.

In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific functions, such as catalysis, molecule transport, or DNA repair. To perform ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold and interact has fascinated researchers for decades. Exactly how a protein ...

The strategies biopharmaceutical manufacturers currently use to limit protein misfolding are complex, time-consuming, and generate low yields with only limited scalability. Covalent organic frameworks ...

Cellular membrane proteins play important roles in cellular transport, signaling, and cell-to-cell communication. Malfunction in membrane proteins can lead to serious diseases, such as cancer. However ...

In order to fulfil their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny “folding factories” in cells that enable ...

AlphaFold An artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts three-dimensional protein structures from amino acid sequences and, in AlphaFold 3, models biomolecular complexes ...