For decades, scientists have understood proteins primarily through two defining features: their amino acid sequence and their ...

Researchers have discovered how unstructured segments of surface proteins regulate the biological function of a cell. Their study, published in Nature Communications, sheds new light on the interplay ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are ready to kick off a project that seeks to control biological functions using microsystems and molecular catalysts. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced ...

Men and women show distinct biological differences in how their brains activate during various tasks, the physical size of specific brain regions, and their behavioral traits. A new study published in ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers will brief industry later this month on a project that seeks to control biological functions using microsystems and molecular catalysts. Officials of the U.S ...

Source: Via Tenor The human brain has been described as the most complex structure in the universe (Dolan, 2007; see also Pang, 2023). Researchers estimate that we have over 100 trillion connections ...

The Gains of Gain-of-Function Research The strongest argument for GoF research is that understanding how biological agents might acquire dangerous characteristics can improve the ability to recognize ...