The research group led by CIC biomaGUNE's Ikerbasque Research Professor Aitziber L. Cortajarena has developed an innovative ...

The body's organs are in constant communication. Fat tissue tells the liver when to store or release energy, the immune ...

For biologists who study the structure of proteins, the recent history of their field is divided into two epochs: before CASP14, the 14th biennial round of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure ...

Rose TTAFold can predict a protein structure in as little as ten minutes on a gaming computer. (Institute for Protein Design Image) The lab of David Baker at the University of Washington’s Institute ...

A first-in-class nanoparticle injection sneaks antibodies into pancreatic cancer cells to clear mutant KRAS, shrinking tumors ...

Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design have engineered larger, virus-like protein cages to one day deliver larger genetic payloads.

In 2022 almost 735 million people, 9.2% of the global population, were undernourished 1 and as we are entering the second quarter of this century, the world faces a formidable task of feeding a ...

Human researchers engineer biological systems through the discovery-driven process of hypothesis generation, designing experiments to test hypotheses, performing these experiments in a wet laboratory, ...

Alt-protein companies scaling their fermentation processes beyond the lab face numerous challenges that require them to think through production processes, raw ingredients, and the design of a ...

A new study has found that the key properties of the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 are consistent with those of several laboratory-developed protein spikes, designed to mimic the ...