Discover how peptides are transforming medical treatments, metabolic conditions and more with fewer side effects than ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

As well-researched as the immune system is, it still regularly manages to throw us a surprise or two. The latest discovery? A ...

Peptides designed by artificial intelligence restrict both drug-resistant bacteria and rapidly evolving viruses.

The results surprised the researchers when they showed that a single peptide that is naturally made by the body can prove ...

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer ...

Research on how proteasomes generate antimicrobial peptides, revealing a new immune mechanism with potential applications for combating antibiotic resistance ...

Wild animals adapted to extreme environments, such as hibernating bears, sub-Antarctic birds or deep-sea worms, hold molecular secrets that could revolutionize medicine. Now, researchers have ...

The Ministry of Environment on March 4 announced its development of an antimicrobial peptide using Halcurias carlgreni, a ...

Evolving cultivated meat industry aims to avoid the use of antibiotics but will need to ensure the meat does not become ...

In doing so, they discovered that some of them had a similar sequence of amino acids (the building blocks that make up proteins) to known antimicrobial peptides. “Before now, we knew nothing ...