Enzyme designers in the David Baker lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, from left: Sam Pellock, Anna Lauko, Kiera ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

but also in his insistence on the importance of using correct terminology when discussing important concepts in enzymology and protein chemistry. The systems that Fersht has chosen for a detailed ...

Proteins are typically preserved in the form of dehydrated powders to avoid their degradation or the growth of microbes that can occur in solution. Such powders are typically obtained by freeze ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

Latent Labs hopes to take computational biology one step further. The company is developing foundation AI models that don’t ...

Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific ...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper share this year’s Chemistry award for their research on protein design and structure prediction. Sneha Khedkar is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She ...

In a pioneering collaboration with AbbVie, Northwestern researchers have discovered a new way to potentially treat cancer by ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

Jumper for their work on using machine learning to predict the structures of all known proteins. In keeping with the theme of ...

A new study reveals that gut bacteria influence brain protein modifications via glycosylation. Researchers identified over ...