Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

A newly developed approach can precisely produce four-stranded β-sheets through metal–peptide coordination, report ...

Almost all living things share the same genetic code, and the origin of this code has long been a topic of scientific debate.

Engineered proteins are critical industrial and medical applications, ranging from vaccine development to making crops or food proteins more resilient. Scientists can engineer proteins to improve upon ...

Researchers at Fraunhofer IME have partnered with metaX Institut für Diätetik GmbH and candidum GmbH to develop a new type of ...

The new Dogma meets Thomas Kuhn’s definition of a paradigm shift. The DNA/RNA Dogma is sufficiently unprecedented to attract ...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communication and social behavior. Approximately 20% ...

Scientists believed they had mapped all the protein-coding genes in our DNA. However, a new study is revealing that we may ...

Peripheral membrane proteins, for example some signalling proteins ... showing that a crucial protein sequence feature enables these helices to be inserted post-translationally by insertases.