Proteins are essential biological molecules that perform a vast array of functions crucial for life, from catalyzing ...

To stay healthy, our cells rely on a self-cleaning mechanism that removes defective or unnecessary components. This process, ...

Individual mammalian cells contain billions of protein molecules, which must be synthesized, deployed, and removed with ...

Proteins are the 'workhorses' in every living cell and constitute the chemical basis of life. These little machines are required to turn food into energy, to manage motion and brain activities and to ...

Johns Hopkins engineers have helped develop and characterize an artificial protein that triggers the same response in the human body as its natural counterpart—a breakthrough that not only has the ...

Scientists gained new insights into RNA-mediated regulation of proteins (riboregulation) and its role in controlling cell growth, and most importantly how undifferentiated cells (embryonic stem cells) ...

Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...

An essential component of many viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, are proteases which cleave its own proteins as well as those in the cell. Many viruses rely on proteases to process polypeptides into ...