The proteome is an incredibly rich and dynamic source of biological information, key to understanding how cells function in sickness and health. Genes and genomes give hints as to what might happen in ...

Proteins are workhorses that carry out most of the biological functions in our cells. While the genes we inherit from our parents, our so-called genome, are fixed and usually remain unchanged ...

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Proteins are vital for life, involved in virtually every biochemical process that makes life possible. They comprise one or more amino acid chains ...

Despite being technically older than the Kjeldahl method, recent technological advancements have made the Dumas method easily accessible to labs. The modern Dumas method of protein determination, ...

Microglia are the brain's immune cells that clean out debris, such as damaged proteins and old cell parts, to keep the organ healthy. But the very properties that make these cells so useful might also ...