Newswise — Proteins, which form much of the molecular machinery required for life, are the targets of most drug molecules. One third of all proteins are membrane proteins " embedded within the cell's ...

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Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according ...

A new review in Molecular Cancer synthesizes how liquid-liquid phase separation shapes radiosensitivity, immune evasion, and ...

Proteins, one of the smallest building blocks of life on Earth, hold promise for answering some of biology's biggest questions. Consisting of amino acids strung together into peptide chains, these ...

A cell sitting in fluid looks like one of the most passive things in biology. Nutrients drift toward it on the aimless ...

Cells are like metropolises, home to millions of molecular residents. If one were to stand atop a high-rise, trying to identify most of its inhabitants would seem an impossible task. Even with the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Many medicines work by blocking a protein’s activity. They bind to a specific site, interfere with a signal, or slow an enzyme down. That strategy can be powerful, but it leaves ...

How cells sense fluctuations in the availability of water has long been unclear. The protein SAM8 is now shown to undergo a process called phase separation in a way that depends on its hydration, ...

Every morning, my job was to check on the cells' well-being.I have been researching cells in a laboratory for 22 years.A day ...

Scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering have collaborated on the discovery of a unique monoclonal antibody, called ESK1, that appears to be effective at targeting and destroying several types of ...

Human liver cells showing collagen droplets inside the cell (green clusters), held in place by TANGO1 (magenta), with extracellular collagen fibres visible as the surrounding network. Cell nuclei are ...