Proteins are the building blocks of life. They consist of folded peptide chains, which in turn are made up of a series of ...

Why do problems occur with a special variant of 'protein glues', the split inteins, that severely limit their use in producing proteins? A team has now answered this question.

When we fail to eat protein rich foods, our bodies eventually run out of these nutrients. And when that happens, it sometimes ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

There’s no argument that we all need protein in our diets, but there is confusion about how much we should be eating on a ...

The Human Domainome 1—the largest library of human protein variants—reveals the cause of certain genetic disorders, paving ...

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

Immunizing mice with an edited Lyme disease-causing bacterial protein effectively protected them against the disease.

The researchers, whose study is published in Pharmacological Research, identified the smallest part of a peptide (small ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments ...

BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has become the most prevalent type of heart failure, but effective treatments are lacking. Cardiac lymphatics play a crucial role in ...