Recent advances in computational biology have revolutionised the field of protein structure and function prediction. Traditionally, determining the three‐dimensional architecture of a protein from its ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of the chemical characteristics. Many ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but necessary to explain cosmology. Astronomy, however, isn't the only field with ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Proteins are the molecular workhorses of cells. To understand their functions, scientists soon realized that they had to figure out proteins’ shapes. But solving a protein structure is a challenging ...

Title: "The Station 41 Therapeutics Accelerator: SR and UAB Collaboration" Apr. 17, 2024 - Dr. Juan Calix, Assist. Professor, Dept. of Medicine, UAB Title: "Filling in the gaps of a unifying model of ...

The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

Precise intracellular transport is essential for neuronal function, yet the exact mechanism of selective cargo delivery by ...

Pathological abnormalities associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been identified in a mouse model using a new imaging technique developed at the University of Birmingham. Using the ...