Engineers develop AI tool to design peptides that turn signals on or off

To develop new and better peptides, the short amino acid strings behind medicines like GLP-1 drugs, researchers have used AI ...

Scientists decipher how a psychedelic substance is created, then engineer a plant to produce several at once

Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already being gathered from plants, ...

AI-guided CRISPR uncovers oxytocin receptor as unexpected psoriasis drug target

Biohub researchers have performed what they believe is the first genome-wide CRISPR study of primary human adult skin cells, ...
SciELO

Activities, network pharmacology, potential mechanism against inflammation of a homogeneous polysaccharide MCP-1 from Mesona chinensis Benth

Inflammation is a condition in which the body’s immune system is compromised. Polysaccharides from Mesona chinensis Benth have been shown to repair the immune system and inhibit inflammation. This ...
PNAS

Voltage-sensor movements in the Eag Kv channel under an applied electric field

The voltage dependence of these channels is governed by the transmembrane displacement of the positive charged S4 helix within their voltage-sensor domains. We use cryo-electron microscopy to ...