The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

Many proteins have a complex architecture that enables biological functions. Molecules can bind to specific sites on a ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia and one of the biggest health challenges of aging societies. In the United States alone, about 7.2 million people aged 65 and older are living ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

Protein activity can be precisely regulated via subtle changes in temperature using heat-sensitive switches. Underlying this ...

Gero, a biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for aging and chronic diseases, has released ProtoBind-Diff, a novel masked diffusion language model that generates drug-like molecules for ...

Scientists have developed a new blood test that could spot Alzheimer’s earlier by detecting hidden changes in how proteins fold in the bloodstream.

Pranam Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), emphasizes that text is all you need for artificial intelligence (AI) models to effectively ...