Proteins have been quietly taking over our lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began. We've been living at the whim of the virus's so-called "spike" protein, which has mutated dozens of times to create ...

Adhesion GPCRs are a group of cell-surface sensors associated with many body functions and diseases. However, they are not yet sufficiently understood to be exploited for therapies. Scientists have ...

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 ...

As one of the twenty-first century's most significant global health issues, the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has indeed altered our lives. Unlike ...

Transverse tubules (T-tubules) play a significant role in muscle contraction. However, the underlying mechanism of their ...