He also describes a complementary technique for cases requiring full amino acid analysis: hydrolyzing the peptide completely, ...

Although the myriad proteins found in all life are largely built from a set of 20 amino acids, many other amino acids exist in nature, and it remains a curiosity as to why some were ultimately ...

While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all ...

This year’s Lasker Basic Medical Research Award recognizes the contributions of Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their invention of the AlphaFold artificial intelligence (AI) system, which predicts ...

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...

Amino acids play a fundamental role in regulating how cells respond to drugs. These molecules, which form proteins, act like bricks that communicate with each other within a structure. The study ...

On October 7, 2026, this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced.The winners are Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso ...

Chemists in Munich have created a four-amino-acid peptide weighing under 750 daltons that harvests visible light and ...