Proteins need to fold into specific shapes to perform their functions in cells, but they occasionally misfold, which can ...

The proposed designs were then synthesised and tested in the lab where they achieved enzymatic activities close to those ...

David Baker's lab at the University of Washington is announcing two major leaps in the field of AI-powered protein design.

A research team at Florida State University's Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry ...

The Nobel Prizes are embracing the AI hype. A day after the Physics prize was given to two scientists for foundational work on machine learning, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Bottom L-R) Chair of the Nobel Prize Committee for Chemistry Heiner Linke, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren and Member of the Nobel Prize Committee for ...

Dynamin is a protein that plays a central role in endocytosis—the process where cells internalize substances by wrapping them in cell membrane vesicles. For a vesicle to detach, the neck of the ...

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