For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

All living things require proteins, members of a vast family of molecules that nature "makes to order" according to the blueprints in DNA. Through the natural process of evolution, DNA mutations ...

Discover how the phosphoric acid in Coca-Cola interacts with milk proteins, creating a dramatic separation effect that turns the dark soda clear. This experiment demonstrates protein denaturation, ...

For those outside the chemistry cognoscenti, the announcement might have seemed little more than researchers patting each other on the back. But the question of protein folding had plagued scientists ...

Microbes designed to make edible proteins in space could significantly bolster the wider precision fermentation industry, paving the way for more environmentally-friendly food. Scientists from ...

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the clumping of proteins called Tau, which form tangled fibrils in the brain.