Most land plants form mutually beneficial symbioses with fungi. The plant and the fungus exchange vital nutrients. A team led ...

Prof. Chii-Shen Yang's team at National Taiwan University resolved the molecular structure and discovered that HwMR, a ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that kills nerve cells in the brain, causing people to lose their cognitive and ...

Leitner studies how energy flows through molecules, especially in biological systems like protein complexes. Being named ...

Proteins are among the most studied molecules in biology, yet new research shows they can still hold surprising secrets. Researchers have discovered previously undetected chemical bonds within ...

Intracellular protein trafficking and secretion of proteins into the extracellular environment are sequential and tightly ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

A new study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology offers groundbreaking evidence that gut bacteria can ...