Numerous BYU students, including Mikaila Sass (pictured), worked with Dr. Willardson in his lab on this discovery. The human body heavily relies on protein molecules for proper functioning. Protein ...

Origami masters turn simple sheets of paper into ornate sculptures. In the origami of life, our cells must fold proteins into ...

Scientists have discovered a new, intermediate state in the process of protein folding, showing folding can occur in two stages, one fast and the next found to be much slower. The findings are ...

Proteins are huge molecules containing hundreds to thousands of atoms that adopt a unique three dimensional structure, placing chemical groups in just the right place to catalyze reactions or build ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Studying how and why proteins misfold has been a major challenge for medical research scientists for decades, and Scheraga used some of the early forms of computational modelling of the process. "I ...

In biophysics, the kinetic states of molecules play a determining role in the metabolic and physiological processes in which they take part. Now, a new article specifies for the first time the levels ...

A new method for manipulating the folding of membrane proteins in a membrane environment has been reported by scientists, using a tool called a magnetic tweezer. Proteins are huge molecules containing ...