Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have discovered a fundamental stabilizing effect Read More
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Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of disordered proteins in cell biology. Summary Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich Read More
Watching how accessory proteins regulate filament growth in real time
Using optical tweezers, researchers at National Taiwan University have observed individual binding events in real time, offering new insights into the molecular regulation of homologous recombination. Summary Researchers at National Taiwan University have utilized optical Read More
Science, Volume 389, Issue 6763, Page 866-867, August 2025. Summary Please provide me with the content you want me to summarize. I need the text from the Science journal, Volume 389, Issue 6763, Page 866-867, August 2025 to give you a 100Read More
RNA could have helped amino acids join up without preexisting protein machinery, lab study suggests Summary A new lab study proposes that RNA may have played a crucial role in the formation of early life Read More
Scientists have uncovered viral protein fragments lingering in the blood of long COVID patients, potentially offering the first measurable biomarker for the condition. These hidden traces suggest the virus may persist in the body long Read More
Ancient Proteins Crack a 2-Million-Year-Old Human Relative Mystery – New
Protein evidence reveals hidden variation in P. robustus. The species may be more complex than once believed. For close to a hundred years, researchers have examined puzzling fossils belonging to a distant and unusually robust Read More
Viral Enzyme Accelerates Evolution of Therapeutic Proteins – New Study/Science
A synthetic system helped bacteria produce protein variants within days, laying the foundation to engineer therapeutic proteins with desired functions. Summary Researchers have developed a synthetic system that dramatically accelerates the creation of protein variants Read More
Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteins –
In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have developed a synthetic biology platform that Read More
Genetics, energetics, and allostery in proteins with randomized cores and
Science, Volume 389, Issue 6758, July 2025. Summary Without access to the table of contents or articles within the specified July 2025 issue of Science, a detailed summary is impossible. However, based on the typical scope of Science magazine, Read More