Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. Although not the infamous example—that ...

One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many ...

the current paper details molecular evidence behind these findings, says Qin, who also directs the Biophysics Graduate ...

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 8 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during ...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are integral membrane ... Here, the authors present cryo-EM structures of CXCR3 in complex with small molecule agonists and discover their dual-agonism at ...

Receptors are generally transmembrane proteins, which bind to signaling molecules outside the cell and subsequently transmit the signal through a sequence of molecular switches to internal ...

As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...

A new study by McGill University researchers yields insights into how the disruption of calcium transport in the brain is ...

Scientists studying mice have uncovered a delicate protein rivalry in the brain that, when thrown off balance, may cause ...

Research from Weill Cornell Medicine has identified a molecular pathway linking omega-6 linoleic acid—a common dietary fat in ...

This method is more efficient than traditional approaches that involve manually isolating proteins and peptides ... working to identify the precise receptors BRP interacts with and to gain a deeper ...