Tiny insects called aphids inject hundreds of mysterious proteins into plants, hijacking the plants' own genomes to build galls: structures made of plant tissue but constructed to the insects' ...

Watermarks have long protected everything from bank notes and fine art to digital photographs and software, helping prove ...

A technology has been developed to embed invisible markers in proteins designed by artificial intelligence (AI), similar to ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Thousands of protein pairs from disease-causing viruses, such as monkeypox virus, have been added to the protein-structure database AlphaFold. Credit: Kateryna Kon/SPL A database of predicted ...

Mining millions of AI-predicted structures reveals an evolutionarily conserved protein that resembles a receptor family ...

Aphids are among the most quietly destructive forces in agriculture, draining sap from crops and manipulating the very plants ...

Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio hides a signature in AI-designed proteins, and the marked binders matched unmarked ones in lab ...

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the membrane proteins myoferlin and dysferlin using high-resolution cryo-electron ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy transthyretin moves hormones through blood and spinal fluid, misfolded ...

Scientists from Scripps Research have uncovered new structures of transthyretin, a protein that moves important hormones like thyroxine through blood and spinal fluid. Misfolded versions of the ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps explain how these tumors resist environmental stress and thrive in acidic, low ...