So long as living cells serve as tiny drug-making factories, they will, like much larger factories, generate unwanted byproducts. As industrial byproducts go, the cells’ byproducts, which are known as ...

What does it mean to purify proteins? Protein purification is a necessary process to identify the structure and function of a protein prior to study. Protein purification involves several steps, from ...

Proteins that are no longer needed, defective, or potentially harmful are labeled with a molecular "tag" and dismantled in ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a new article specifies for the first time the levels ...

Protein misfolding is a likely culprit in many degenerative disorders. Cystic fibrosis, for instance, is caused by mutations in the CFTR gene that prevent the eponymous protein from assuming its ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the ...