You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8% of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a souvenir from our evolutionary past, a reminder that viruses ...
For life to function, cell membranes must remain intact. When these fragile barriers are damaged鈥攆or instance by heat or viral attack鈥攕pecialized proteins come to the rescue. Researchers at Forschungszentrum J眉lich, ...
Researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in creating a molecular blueprint of how one of the world's most dangerous toxins, botulinum toxin, is structured, stabilized, delivered and released. The research, published ...
A Cornell-led collaboration has devised a potentially low-cost method for producing antibodies for therapeutic treatments. They've bioengineered bacteria with an overlooked enzyme that can attach complex sugars, known as ...
When your dog starts limping or your cat comes down with a sniffle, it's natural to worry. For many families, pets are more than just animals鈥攁nd we want them to have a standard of medical care similar to our own.
New research, published in the journal Science, shows how lysosomes鈥攐rganelles that act like cells' waste disposal system鈥攔espond to stress by becoming abnormally bloated, a process called lysosomal vacuolation that is ...
Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...
Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...
Chronic infections impact a substantial portion of the global population, presenting ongoing challenges to health care systems and compromising patient well-being.
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 targets and designing new therapeutic antibodies.
