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

University of Utah researchers at the Pulst-Scoles Laboratory have discovered that reducing levels of the STAUFEN-1 protein ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

Despite vaccines and treatments, SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—continues to pose a global health threat, driven by new variants and its ability to hijack human cells in ways that still ...

When it comes to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and certain forms of dementia, ...

According to experts, protein is essential for tissue repair, skin benefits, healthy aging, hormone balance, muscle ...

Healthy nuts such as walnuts, which contain 4g of protein per ounce, are also featured high up in the new food ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

A comprehensive analysis of over 500,000 human protein variants reveals that 60% of disease-causing missense mutations reduce protein stability In a recent study published in Nature, researchers used ...