16-12-19 The study, published today in Nature Microbiology, holds promise for a new treatment method against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (commonly known as superbugs). The star-shaped structures, are short chains of proteins called peptide polymers, and we...

15-07-23 Bacteria have plenty of things to send out into world beyond their own boundaries: coordinating signals to other members of their species, poisons for their enemies, and devious instructions to manipulate host cells they have infected. Before any of...

14-09-24 Antarctic fishes that manufacture their own antifreeze proteins to survive in the icy Southern Ocean also suffer an unfortunate side effect, researchers report: The protein-bound ice crystals that accumulate inside their bodies resist melting even w...

14-09-20 Researchers in Biomedical Informatics at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and at the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC) have recently published a study in eLife showing that RNA called non-coding (IncRNA) plays an important...

14-05-29 Striving for the protein equivalent of the Human Genome Project, an international team of researchers has created an initial catalog of the human proteome（蛋白质组） , or all of the proteins in the human body. In total, using 30 different human tis...

14-05-04 New research by scientists at the University of York sheds light on how bacteria exploit human proteins during infections. A research team led by Professor Jennifer Potts, a British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow in York's Department of Bio...

14-04-14 A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has uncovered a new aspect of autism, revealing that proteins involved in auti...

14-03-06 That chicken wing you're eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times...

14-02-15 Cells communicate through proteins embedded in their cell membranes. These proteins have diverse functions and can be compared with antennas, switches and gates. For the well-being of the cell, it has to adjust the composition of its membrane protei...

13-11-13 People get type 2 diabetes（糖尿病） . So do cats. But rats don't, and neither do dogs. Subtle differences in the shape of proteins protect some and endanger others. All mammals make this same protein called amylin（淀粉不溶素） , and it only differ...