Scientists thought they had a working map of the human proteome. Some stretches of DNA made useful proteins, while a murkier, ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest questions. Consisting of amino acids strung together into peptide chains, these ...

Many drug and antibody discovery pathways focus on intricately folded cell membrane proteins. When molecules of a drug candidate bind to these proteins, like a key going into a lock, they trigger ...

I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...

Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. Proteins’ functions are closely tied to their often-complex 3D structures. Some have specialized pockets or protrusions that ...