UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps explain how these tumors resist environmental stress and thrive in acidic, low ...

A new study maps the biological influences on thousands of plasma proteins, revealing potential disease biomarkers and drug targets, providing hope for more precise, personalized treatments. Study: ...

Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer’s disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human body, stick to nerve cells like plaque, choking off their function and ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 30% of global mortality and imposing a substantial economic burden on society. Due to the high ...

Saliva and plasma could be crucial in detecting recurrences or relapses of head and neck cancers, negating the need for a ...

When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first spread worldwide, many hospitals were overwhelmed with new patients, and the lack of drugs designed to treat coronavirus diseases became immediately ...

Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2015), pp. 153-161 (9 pages) Determination of hematological and biochemical parameters provides important data to ...

A small fragment of a protein from spider silk enables researchers to express functional hydrophobic and aggregation-prone proteins. As scientists have learned more about the structure and synthesis ...

Researchers have found a new type of cross-link between amino acids in a protein (Nature 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03513-3). The intramolecular linkage is an N-O-S bridge formed by oxidizing the ...

On the same day that the AlphaFold2 paper was published, Baker and his colleagues released an independent, freely accessible alternative that predicts protein structure with similar accuracy to ...