Human bodies easily digest starch. Your body uses an enzyme called amylase that breaks the alpha bonds to release glucose ...

Glutathione balance in the ER, controlled by SLC33A1, is essential for proper protein folding and disease prevention.

AI-guided redesign of protein alphabet in bacteria could unlock new ways to build synthetic organisms.

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new ...

At AACR 2026, researchers discussed the promise and challenges of bringing AI-powered tools into cancer research and clinical ...

Michael Levitt, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, recently arrived in Beijing and made a special trip to the office of Hu ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...

Egg cells need to store large amounts of proteins and other molecules to support the earliest stages of development. But how do they organize this supply? Egg cells have a dedicated storage system, ...

Abstract: Proteins, the fundamental molecular components of life, are essential to numerous biological processes and hold immense importance in biotechnology, medicine, and agriculture. This research ...