Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are ...

Recent research, however, has pointed to a different type of cellular structure that may play an equally important role. Called biological condensates, these structures exist because of ...

Cornell food scientists have created a natural blue food dye made of algae protein that could replace petroleum-based ...

However, intriguingly, many of the most important proteins involved in gene regulation lack stable structure ... protein give rise to a kind of hidden organization,” said Dr. Katerina Cermakova, ...

A team used generative AI to enhance T cells’ ability to fight melanoma. The immunotherapy approach needs more testing before use in cancer patients.

The three scientists had been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their “computational work on protein design and structure.” While AlphaFold and the subsequent AI revolution in biology ...

Therefore, it’s critical that the AI is trained to understand not just protein chemistry but all of biochemistry.” Guided by this updated AI model, MutComputeX, they engineered E. coli bacteria to ...

Last year, they identified a carotenoid-carrying protein that gives locusts their yellow color (Commun. Biol. 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06149-x).

Assembling these images into a three-dimensional model allowed the reconstruction of the protein structure at an unprecedented resolution of 3.67 Å.

Interactions between disordered molecules with structured protein give rise to a kind of hidden organization,” said Dr. Katerina Cermakova, co-corresponding author and assistant professor of ...