An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

A protein long blamed for the brain damage seen in Alzheimer's disease has now been found in astonishingly high levels in ...

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, ...

One of the great biological mysteries of the human body is how hundreds of complex, origami-like proteins, many of which are ...

When proteins are made in a cell, they start out as strings of amino acids, which have to be folded into the correct, 3D ...

In summary, while forgetfulness can be a normal part of aging, dementia is a disease that causes much more serious and ...

I n a world first, scientists have created mice with two fathers, capable of having offspring of their own. It’s a huge step ...

This ‘organized water’ aligns the proteins together, forming neat and orderly fibrils that can then recruit other proteins to misfold and join the stack. With further characterization of the synthetic ...