Four recent breakthroughs in proteomics that are changing the way we sequence, synthesize and discover proteins.

Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have ...

Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E. coli cells, to produce ...

The highly conserved CCA end sequence of tRNAs has been shown to be less critical than expected, enabling a more tunable ...

For decades, amino acids have been added to medical formulations like insulin as stabilizers: these small molecules keep proteins (i.e. larger particles) from interacting in undesirable ways. And for ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

A protein's function is determined by its structure, and structure—the way a protein folds—is determined by its sequence of ...

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 ...

Although technically a legume, peanuts provide 7.43 grams of protein per ounce and are rich in B vitamins, magnesium, and ...

It is important to separate the marketing push to add protein to everything from what is really necessary for good health.