Improved analysis adds several microproteins to the human proteome, and suggests a path toward identifying thousands more ...

Using bright X-rays from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Maddy Buxton, Culture & Trends manager at YouTube, discusses how creators and digital animation on the platform are global, fan-driven, popular among young adults, and driving innovation and ...

Merve Ceylan is a dietitian and health writer with four years of experience writing for companies in the nutrition and health industry. Both whey and plant protein support muscle growth and daily ...

A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure – and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of the chemical characteristics. Many ...

Scientists have developed a novel protein evolution approach dubbed optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic, multi-state, and computational functions based on ...

Scientists used light to evolve proteins that can switch, sense, and even “compute” inside living cells. Evolution is one of biology’s most powerful design tools. It works by producing many variations ...

Making high-performance proteins for medicines or consumer products can take trial after trial of tweaks, experiments and fine-tuning. A new machine learning framework squeezes all that into a single ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but necessary to explain cosmology. Astronomy, however, isn't the only field with ...

After a Consumer Reports investigation revealed that some popular protein powders and shakes contained troubling levels of lead, many readers wrote in with a simple question: What does this mean for ...