Enhanced fluorescence technique illuminates rapid, coordinated protein folding

A team of US researchers has gained new insights into how large protein molecules consistently fold themselves into useful ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science

The company has already used its protein-folding AI, AlphaFold, to generate structures for the human proteome, as well as yeast, fruit flies, mice, and more. Back in December 2020, DeepMind took the ...
New Atlas

Incredible database now includes almost every protein known to science

Last year, Alphabet’s DeepMind released an open source database of the 3D structures of hundreds of thousands of proteins, including all 20,000 known proteins in the human body. Now, this AlphaFold ...
News Medical

SARS-CoV-2's RNA folding structures are potential therapeutic targets, study finds

The emergence of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen, warrants the need for collaborative ...
American Institute of Physics

Unfolding a twist hidden in origami structures

Novel insight into the “Sareh twist” suggests that this mechanism underlying origami tessellations could become a key element in the design of origami-inspired structures for science and engineering ...
Nature

Acceleration of the folding of acylphosphatase by stabilization of local secondary structure

The information required for a protein to fold to its native structure is contained within its amino acid sequence. How this structure is attained efficiently given the countless possible ...