Get it wrong with your laundry and the result can be a crumpled, wrinkled mess of fabric, but when folding fails among the approximately 7,000 proteins with an origami-like complexity that ...

An AI tool has made a step forward in translating the language proteins use to dictate whether they form sticky clumps ...

What is protein folding? It is the process by which proteins acquire their functional, preordained, three-dimensional structure after they emerge, as linear polymers of amino acids, from the ribosome.

For those fuzzy on the details, here’s a progressive timeline that led to this monumental achievement. 1972: Anfinsen Presents the Protein-Folding Problem In science, it is often hard to pinpoint when ...

In 1961 the structure of one protein, myoglobin, was known at 6 Å resolution and its 2 Å structure would soon be published. The structural determinations of hemoglobin and hen lysozyme were well ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it will be phasing out animal testing for some new ...

This kind of tight folding and packing minimizes the overall free energy of the protein. An average protein has about 300 amino acid residues. If we consider that there are twenty different amino ...

Researchers say that while a new study has implications for neurodegenerative disease research, its more immediate impact ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion.