In the earliest phase of creating human proteins, the protein complex NAC performs an essential task by starting the first steps toward folding proteins into their correct three-dimensional structures ...

Proteins are among the most important molecular building blocks of life. They are chains of amino acids assembled in our cells by ribosomes, the molecular "protein factories" of our bodies. The ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn as well as the ...

When a person runs first thing in the morning, they are training in a state where they have fasted for eight to twelve hours consistently. Glycogen stores are lower than they’d be later in the day, ...

The yeast Kluyveromyces lactis (K. lactis) could become a highly productive, sustainable, cost-effective energy source for cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) as biopharmaceutical manufacturers strive ...

Challenging the belief that animal protein is the superior type for building muscle, scientists have shown that there is actually no difference in eating meat and dairy or plant sources following a ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a previously unrecognized role of mitochondrial protein synthesis in the maintenance of intracellular iron distribution. Disruption of this process was found to ...