In the hunt for new therapeutics for cancer and infectious diseases, lasso peptides prove to be a catch. Their knot-like ...

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer ...

Protein large language model (LLM) designed to help enterprises accelerate drug development coming to Google Cloud's Vertex AI Model Garden soon; one of the first-of-its-kind in the industry Model API ...

Conserved sequence motifs within intrinsically disordered protein regions act as evolutionary units that support phase separation and membraneless organelle formation.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Within the past few years, models that can predict the structure or function of proteins have been widely used for a variety of biological applications, such as identifying drug ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have shown that players of the ...

When proteins are made in a cell, they start out as strings of amino acids, which have to be folded into the correct, three-dimensional shape so they will function properly. Misfolded proteins can ...

Bats and toothed whales are distant groups, yet both have independently developed the ability to perceive their environment through echolocation.

A University of Alberta research team has uncovered a new role for a genetic mutation previously known to be linked to ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease in which the lungs become thickened and scarred, gradually losing their ability to ...