Proteins are important molecules that perform a variety of functions essential to life. To function properly, many proteins must fold into specific structures. However, the way proteins fold into ...

For those outside the chemistry cognoscenti, the announcement might have seemed little more than researchers patting each other on the back. But the question of protein folding had plagued scientists ...

In a series of recent animal studies, a handful of deceptively simple molecules have done something that once sounded like ...

Scientists discovered a role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells. Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in ...

Usually, there are helper proteins, called “chaperones,” that work throughout the cell to make sure other proteins fold correctly and prevent them from clumping. However, in diseases like HD, this ...