In the earliest phase of creating human proteins, the protein complex NAC performs an essential task by starting the first steps toward folding proteins into their correct three-dimensional structures ...

Scientists have revealed that the bacterial chaperonin GroEL, with its partner GroES, can capture and refold nascent proteins while they are still being made on ribosomes. This cotranslational folding ...

Cells can be thought of as cities, with factories, a transport system, and lots of building activity. An international team led by scientists at the University of Groningen studied cells growing under ...

Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) represents a transformative technology in which the molecular machinery of transcription and translation is extracted from living cells and employed in a controlled ...

As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul ...

A KAIST research team has identified the real reason why anticancer drugs kill cancer cells—targeted anticancer therapies do ...

Nanomedicine prompts RNA to make protein-based drugs to treat diseases. Now we can fine-tune protein production by dialling ...

Within aging organisms, cells slowly lose their youthful precision: Membranes stiffen, repair systems malfunction, and proteins begin to misfold and pile up. One of the cell organelles that ...

Cells constantly monitor their surroundings and detect chemical and mechanical signals that control vital functions such as movement, growth and communication. Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors ...