A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

In the early 1990s, protein biologists invested in solving a challenge that had riddled them for decades. The protein folding problem centered on the idea that biologists should be able to predict the ...

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Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that represents an important milestone on the road to artificial cells. Biophysicists have designed a new cell-like transport system that ...

Longevity science has spent decades chasing single molecules that might slow aging, but most candidates have delivered modest ...

CCN proteins, a family of matricellular regulatory molecules, have emerged as pivotal modulators within the tumour microenvironment. Their functions extend beyond mere structural roles; they influence ...

Located at the cellular interface, membrane proteins play critical regulatory roles in the signaling between a cell and its interacting environment, making them popular and ideal drug targets.

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have ...

Proteins are important molecules—but they aren’t the only molecules in a cell, and they don’t operate alone. In a new preprint, the team behind the protein structure prediction software RoseTTAFold ...