Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new experimental method to analyze conformational fluctuations in protein domains on a uniquely large scale, which may improve data-driven modeling, ...

The coevolution of mammals and viruses has been an arms race of sorts. Part of our defense against viruses comes from the innate immune response, which includes specific cell types and intracellular ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...