Usually when a novel disease, such as Coronavirus/COVID-19, is detected, people generally discuss it as if it’s spreading in a vacuum, independent of other diseases. But there are, in reality, ...

Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions. This folding process occasionally goes awry, resulting in misfolded proteins ...

A new study has described a potential mechanism that could help explain why some proteins refold in a different pattern than expected. The research showed that a type of misfolding, called ...

This new pattern was described as "stretched-exponential refolding kinetics," but the structural mechanism that explained this difference remained a mystery - until now. The research team hypothesized ...

Recent studies have revealed that within cells of both yeast and bacteria, the rates of diffusion of RNA proteins - complex molecules that convey important information throughout the cell - are ...