Scientists discovered that Gila monster venom contains a compound that slows digestion. It led to one of the biggest medical ...

Apple developed an alternative AI model to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details.

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

By spreading out tightly packed information in neural networks, a new set of tools could make AI protein models easier to ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...

Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have ...

By making the world's microbial DNA easier to explore, a new sequence alignment tool, LexicMap, lets scientists search for a ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the cell, transmitting signals, speeding up reactions and helping neighboring ...