Tag: protein

From the common cold to pneumonia and potentially life threatening lung diseases: a single protein was found to play a ...

As much as we here at ZME Science love promoting science, we really hate it when the media misinterprets research ...

To fully understand the processes and mechanisms that work at a cellular level, biologists should study them in their native, ...

Most of the time, when you're sick, you want to deliver drugs and imaging agents to diseased cells or tumours ...

Scientists at MIT have created tiny, millimeter-scale robots inspired by proteins that join together and can fold into various shapes. Though ...

Culturing mammalian cells is currently the only way to make some complex proteins used in certain drugs; but growing such ...

Be it a bacteria or a fully complex being, say a human, all living, biological organisms undergo lighting fast protein ...

Scientists from the University of Washington have been struggling for the past decade to decipher the complex structure of an ...

The fight against Alzheimer's is a harsh and rugged one, and despite numerous advancements, there still isn't a definitive cure ...

The latest in a long line of studies conducted on the fruit fly showed that organs have the molecular mechanisms ...

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...

The war on cancer is more intense than ever, and it's taking place on many, many fronts. We've seen the ...

Scientists that analyzed meteorite dust made some discoveries that gave them clues about the ever standing mystery of how life ...

This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry has been earned by three scientists who researched into the mysterious green glow of ...