The biochip could speed this process dramatically. It would contain antibodies to Listeria monocytogenes obtained from rabbits or mice. Antibodies are natural defense proteins that organisms use to ...

The ancestor of plants, animals and fungi evolved around 2 billion years ago, likely from a group of complex microbes called Asgard archaea — and we inherited two defense proteins that fight off ...

By controlling how defense proteins are translated, scientists were able to bolster plant immunity without causing collateral damage (bottom right).

Leão and his team used a database of prokaryotic defense systems to study the distribution of complete systems in the genomes of archaea, including Asgard archaea, and bacteria. 7 The researchers ...

SEATTLE, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arzeda, the industry-leading Protein Design Company™, today announced it has been selected for an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...