Academic researchers have leveraged the Alphafold protein model to redesign patatin ... and decision-making at critical stages of the genetic engineering process.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

A disrupted protein degradation process in heart muscle cells can lead ... USP5 levels trigger dilated cardiomyopathy. "Through a genetic intervention, we were able to specifically knock out ...

Resistance to diseases could be introduced into susceptible crops using genetic engineering. Not only can this protect the crop, it can also safeguard farmers' livelihoods. An example is ...

A Washington State University Spokane research team has made a breakthrough at the cellular level in studying the secrets of ...

Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological functions ... Unlike AlphaFold, which can predict the structure of existing proteins, ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

Protein design (or protein engineering) is a technique by which ... which uses random mutagenesis coupled with a selection process to identify desired variants. Fusion oncoproteins drive ...

The use of electrical impulses also speeds up the purification process, Ferrand-Drake del Castillo says, explaining that “instant millisecond switches reduce the cycle time and use of raw materials by ...

MIT researchers introduce CuRVE, a protein-labeling technique enabling uniform staining across entire tissues.

GEB act as a small ‘machine factory’ in the intestine or other tissues to continuously produce heterologous proteins or molecular compounds and ... highlight their great potential for clinical ...