Proteins are the workhorses of biological systems, performing essential functions ranging from structural support to enzymatic catalysis and cellular communication. Accurate characterization of ...

DeepMind's AlphaFold, a generative AI tool, has achieved a milestone in biology by accurately predicting protein structures, ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

A study published in December by Duke professor Rohit Singh and his team proposes a new computational model called antibody ...

All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

This valuable study reports on the critical role of ANKRD5 (ANKEF1) in sperm motility and male fertility. However, the supporting data remain incomplete. This work will be of interest to biomedical ...

A new biomarker test can detect early-stage tau protein clumping up to a decade before it appears on brain scans, improving ...

In 1958, Francis Crick's sequence hypothesis finally provided an answer to the question: what is a gene? Why is this definition now considered overly simplistic? Roberts and Sharp also noted that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...