Proteins are often called the building blocks of life. While true, the analogy evokes images of Lego-like pieces snapping together to form intricate but rigid blocks that combine into muscles and ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...

A new machine learning method has achieved what even AlphaFold cannot — the design of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), the shape-shifting biomolecules that make up nearly 30% of all human ...

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A new study presents computational strategies to manipulate membrane protein folding and function for biotechnological applications.

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the ...

The latest version of Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs’ AlphaFold model can predict the structure and relationships not only of proteins, but “all of life’s molecules”, according to its developers.

In hospital TV series such as Scrubs or Dr. House, medical doctors search for correct diagnoses and possible treatments for patients with sometimes puzzling or strange symptoms. In reality, this ...

Designing drugs is a bit like playing with Polly Pocket. The vintage toy is a plastic clam shell that contains a multi-bedroom house, a skating rink, a disco dance floor, and other fun scenarios. Kids ...