In five years since AlphaFold's debut, it has transformed basic biochemical research. But its long-term effect on drug ...

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 ...

Last year, Alphabet’s DeepMind released an open source database of the 3D structures of hundreds of thousands of proteins, including all 20,000 known proteins in the human body. Now, this AlphaFold ...

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 ...

Science magazine has revealed its breakthrough of the year: Artificial intelligence discoveries that predict how proteins fold, forged by researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for ...

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, ...

Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham.View full profile Francesca has an MSci in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham. The rest of this article is behind a ...