Protein function prediction and annotation represent critical challenges in the post‐genomic era. As high‐throughput sequencing continues to generate vast amounts of protein data, computational ...

Scientists at Penn State report that they have produced a nanocomputing agent that can control the function of a particular protein that participates in cell movement and cancer metastasis. They say ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

A fundamental discovery about phosphorylation, a key mechanism that enables nervous system connections to strengthen, may alter the textbook-level understanding of how synapses work. Phosphorylation ...

A major scientific advance in protein modeling developed by Microsoft Research AI for Science, has been published in Science. The study introduces BioEmu, a generative deep learning system that ...

For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal ...

A new study on fatty acid acylation, or attachment, patterns onto proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans, a type of roundworm, provides a foundation for future discoveries around protein function and its ...

Johns Hopkins engineers have helped develop and characterize an artificial protein that triggers the same response in the human body as its natural counterpart—a breakthrough that not only has the ...

Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases. Characterizing proteins can reveal the mechanisms of a disease, ...