One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the clumping of proteins called Tau, which form tangled fibrils in the brain. The more severe the clumping, the more advanced the disease is.

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

In a study published in Science on January 9, the teams of Jeremy Murray and ZHANG Yu from the Center for Excellence in ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences have found how legume plants ...

Taxanes such as paclitaxel are among the standard chemotherapies for triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of this tumor type. However, numerous processes can contribute to ...

This article and associated images are based on a poster originally authored by Lin Chen, Vincent Blay, Pedro J. Ballester and Douglas R. Houston and presented at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2025 in ...

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Jessica Kramer, left, and Thomas McParlton observe the size of ice crystals in a sample treated with their protein in their lab at the University of Utah. Anyone who has experienced freezer burn knows ...

Pranam Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), emphasizes that text is all you need for artificial intelligence (AI) models to effectively ...

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) challenge traditional structure-function paradigms by existing as dynamic ensembles rather than stable tertiary structures. Capturing these ensembles is ...

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