Overall structure of the iRhom2–ADAM17 zymogen complex. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2500732122 Two key protein structures in the body are being ...

Proteins are fundamental biomolecules that perform a broad range of vital functions within the human body. They serve as an essential structural and functional component of cells, tissues and organs ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest ...

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's ...

Researchers developed a computer simulation that rapidly and accurately predicts how proteins shift their shapes, potentially advancing drug design and protein engineering.

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 ...

When a protein folds, its string of amino acids wiggles and jiggles through countless conformations before it forms a fully folded, functional protein. This rapid and complex process is hard to ...

Understanding how proteins interact with their own mirror images enabled a Kobe University research team to design a small ...

How do we feel cold? Nobel Prize-winning researchers have discovered the molecular mechanism of the TRPM8 "cold sensor" ...