An international research team has mapped the millisecond-by-millisecond process by which nerve signals activate muscles, uncovering a previously unseen “primed” intermediate step.

Successes of protein science during the past century have provided a high level of understanding of the relationships between the protein structure and ...

In the wee hours of an October morning, David Baker, a protein biologist at the University of Washington (UW), received the most-awaited phone call in a scientist’s career. Halfway around the world, ...

Anyone who has experienced freezer burn knows that ice crystals can be a problem at low temperatures. Ice crystals' jagged ...

An international team of scientists has generated a new ring-shaped protein nanomaterial capable of strongly binding to and ...

Using millions of microscope images magnified up to 130,000 times, researchers from Radboud University Medical Center and ...

University of Utah engineers’ stripped-down version of glycoproteins in polar-region fish is simple enough to be manufactured at scale, but powerful enough to inhibit formation of ice crystals at ...