This important study fills an gap in our knowledge of the evolution of GPCRs in holozoans, as well as the phylogeny of associated signaling pathway components such as G proteins, GRKs, and RIC8 ...

Scientists discover cold-loving proteins called cryorhodopsins that could help control brain cells with light.

Billions of years ago, a rock crack exuding heat could have brought different biomolecules together to kickstart protein ...

Looking at life today, it is difficult to imagine how complex biological processes and structures could have developed from ...

Most of us turn to coffee for a quick boost in the morning—but new research suggests that caffeine may also be helping our ...

Caffeine appears to affect how cells handle stress and DNA damage—but researchers say it’s no magic bullet. Here’s what the ...

Scientists have long used fluorescent dyes—which emit light—to research cell structures and activities. By attaching ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the color ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics have developed a novel synthetic micropeptide termed the "killswitch" to selectively immobilize proteins within cellular condensates, ...

That's the equivalent of 500 million years of evolution being processed by AI, the research team estimates, and it opens the way to creating custom-made proteins that can be designed for specific uses ...

Scientists at the EvolutionaryScale and the Arc Institute have developed a new type of green fluorescent protein (GFP). The protein was crafted entirely by an AI model trained to mimic 500 million ...

ESM3 feeds on sequence, structure, and function data from existing proteins to learn the biological language of these molecules and create new ones. Its creators have trained it with 771 billion data ...