A DGIST research team identified that the mutation of the collybistin protein found in autistic patients weakens the brain's ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Plant structural biology sits at the leading edge of research on how plants adapt to abiotic and biotic stresses, ...

It is well established that cellulose synthesis in higher plants requires three different but related catalytic subunits known as CESA proteins. Here the authors provide cryo electron microscopy ...

1 Department of Bioinformatics, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia 2 Laboratory of Structure-Function Based Drug Design, Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, ...

Visualization of the protein clumps associated with Huntington’s disease, determined by combining simulations and multiple complementary types of experiments. The figure shows the overall structure at ...

Efforts to unlock the mysteries of proteins, building blocks of life, have earned three scientists the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The prize goes to David Baker “for computational protein design,” ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Jane Richardson never considered herself an artist. Then, in the late 1970s, the structural biologist found herself in need of some colored pencils, pastels and sketching paper. Richardson, a ...

Researchers recently published findings that could lay the groundwork for applying quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction. Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and IBM recently ...

Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that can help with work tasks or the digital chores of ...