It didn’t take long for Kennesaw State University student Lilianna Kocai to discover a passion for research. All it took was ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

Of the 20 essential amino acids, nine are actually essential. Of those nine, three are branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Leucine falls into both groups. All BCAAS are vital for building and ...

The hexapeptide tag is a minimal structural perturbation relative to fluorescent proteins. Still, as a modification to metabolic substrates such as amino acids and monosaccharides, the hexapeptide ...

ESM3 was trained on an impressive 3.15 billion protein sequences (the order of amino acids in a protein), 236 million protein structures (their ... A rendering of esmGFP, a new green fluorescent ...

The Government of Canada conducted a science-based evaluation, called a screening assessment to address the potential for harm to Canadians and to the environment from 2 substances in the Stilbenes ...

In nature, green fluorescent proteins give fluorescent jellyfish and corals their glow ... Proteins are made up of chains of molecules called amino acids, the sequence of which is provided by genes.

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.

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