Molecular stress brought on by diabetes, fatty liver disease and other chronic conditions can all cause proteins to put on the brakes. Instead of zipping around the cell and bumping into each other to ...

Researchers have identified that G-quadruplexes promote harmful protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Blocking ...

This could provide important insights into how cell shape affects the colonization of ecological niches, the establishment of ...

to treat Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis. Scientists spend years in laboratories mapping protein structures. But last year, ...

Tau behaves abnormally in the brain in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This latest study points to a reason why.

it may not work properly and could lead to diseases such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis or diabetes. A protein's overall ...

The software takes into account both the shape and the atomic makeup of the proteins, and examines physical forces, such as electrostatics, that affect protein-protein or protein-ligand binding.

There is a change in the conformation (or shape) of PrP in the abnormal ... denote the infectious particle that causes these diseases. The "protein-only" hypothesis is a controversial hypothesis ...

Depending on the shape of the protein chain, that is ... to gain a deeper understanding of the body's mechanisms, various diseases, and to develop new types of medical drugs.