A team of researchers has revealed that the Dumpy protein, a component of extracellular matrices -- or ECM -- is the key factor in regulating the stereotypic origami-like folding of wing-cell sheets.

Proteins are important molecules that perform a variety of functions essential to life. To function properly, many proteins must fold into specific structures. However, the way proteins fold into ...

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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s get the week started by catching up on some of the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The winners of the ...

I recently attended the FASEB Summer Research Conference (SRC) entitled Protein Folding in the Cell. The conference was held at Vermont Academy, a boarding school in the small town of Saxtons River, ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Artificial intelligence can find you a recipe or generate a picture, but it can't hang a picture on a wall or cook you dinner. Chelsea Finn wants that to change. Finn, an engineer ...