Scientists continue to be puzzled by how proteins fold into their three-dimensional structures. Small single-domain proteins may hold the key to solving this puzzle. These proteins often fold into ...

The people behind the protein folding game FoldIt let their users share protein folding recipes, which enabled them to quickly evolve a recipe that could outperform one that was being developed in a ...

Now, a new study has described a potential mechanism that could help explain why some proteins refold in a different pattern than expected. The researchers, led by chemists at Penn State, found that a ...

For those outside the chemistry cognoscenti, the announcement might have seemed little more than researchers patting each other on the back. But the question of protein folding had plagued scientists ...

Proteins are the molecular machines of cells. They are produced in protein factories called ribosomes based on their blueprint—the genetic information. Here, the basic building blocks of proteins, ...

A multicolored protein structure is blurred at the edges and comes into focus toward the center. Detail of a protein designed using a tool called ProteinMPNN Credit: Ian C. Haydon/UW Institute for ...

Proteins are the molecular machines of cells. They are produced in protein factories called ribosomes based on their blueprint, the genetic information. Here, the basic building blocks of proteins, ...