E1s and E2s first work generically across the cell to activate and prepare ubiquitin for attachment. E3 ligases then ensure that the tag is added to the right protein; as such, hundreds of specific ...

Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the ...

NASA have found evidence of the building blocks of life on an asteroid, Professor Luke O’Neill has said. With talks of a ...

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...

Advancements in machine learning are reshaping protein structure prediction, offering efficient tools that enhance drug ...

We’re so used to cooking eggs to make them “hard-boiled” that we don’t think about how counter that word is to most of nature.

Hard-boiling, soft-boiling or using a trendy sous vide—no matter the approach, cooking a whole egg preserves either the ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

For decades, lab-made antibodies have been used to support patients fighting specific diseases. These treatments have become ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...