For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells.

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Juntendo University have identified a previously unknown structural domain in ...

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells. But how these molecular vehicles identify and bind to the right cargo ...

Inside each cell of the human body are proteins that control which genes are expressed at the right place and time. However, intriguingly, many of the most important proteins involved in gene ...

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and ...

Proteins are strikingly complex macromolecules, which control every aspect of molecular function in all living organisms, making them an interesting research target. The Ando Lab studies the structure ...

A new study exploring the structure of a tardigrade’s DNA damage-supressor protein could unlock a pathway to new levels of ...

Watson was also an outspoken and controversial figure who transformed the way science was communicated. He was the first high-profile Nobel laureate to give the general public a shockingly personal ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...