Scientists have discovered how a key protein helps maintain strong connections between brain cells that are crucial for ...

A major scientific advance in protein modeling developed by Microsoft Research AI for Science, has been published in Science.

When the flavor diffuses into the interior of the protein molecule, it destroys the hydrophobic interaction between the protein chain segments and destabilizes the protein structure, thus changing the ...

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tool BioEmu can predict the multiple conformational states of a protein, giving insight into how a protein moves and its potential function.

During his 36-year career at Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and considers ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Leiden researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps bacteria feed on everyday plastics. This common enzyme could play a ...

These results confirm the importance of positive selection in proteins related to defense mechanisms already observed in a wide array of organisms. Key words: pathogenesis-related proteins, PRs, ...