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AlphaFold Mapped the Shapes of Millions of Proteins. Now Scientists Are Using the Powerful AI to Figure Out What They Actually Do
7+ hour, 54+ min ago (743+ words) AlphaFold worked like a protein matchmaker and uncovered thousands of possible interactions. Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool, called AlphaFold, has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of…...
Scientists Did the Math on Cannibalism. Apparently Eating Other People Is Not Good for Your Health
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (810+ words) New study suggests prion disease, not calories, made cannibalism an evolutionary dead end....
Scientists Finally Capture the Shape-Shifting Protein That Tells Your Brain It Is Cold
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (765+ words) Scientists finally watched the body’s cold sensor snap open A blast of winter air and a dollop of mint toothpaste shouldn’t have much in common. Yet, both trigger the exact same molecular alarm in your nerve endings. The culprit is…...
Some Cancerous Tumors Pump Out a Protein That Seems to Destroy Alzheimer's Plaques
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (489+ words) Cancer survivors seem to have significantly lower risk of developing Azheimer's. Cancer and Alzheimer’s are two of the most dreaded diseases, but they don’t seem to strike the same person too often. In a dark twist of fate, researchers say…...
How Life Solved Its "Impossible" Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn't Need a Miracle to Appear
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (1782+ words) Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed. The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. It’s a biochemical ouroboros: everything needs everything else to…...
Scientists Engineered a Supercharged Quorn Fungus That Makes Nearly Double the Protein
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (457+ words) Scientists grew a microscopic fungus into a more efficient — and meat-like — edible protein by tweaking just two genes with CRISPR gene editing. “We successfully made a fungus not only more nutritious but also more environmentally friendly by tweaking its genes,…...
Yale Chemists Recreate a Sea-Sponge Molecule With Big Cancer-Fighting Potential
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (597+ words) This opens the door to understanding a mysterious marine compound. In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make it. Now, a team at Yale has finally…...
6 Ways Peptides Are Sparking a Medical Revolution
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (945+ words) From smart cancer drugs to AI-designed therapies, this tech is changing everything. For decades, these molecules were seen as a niche class, but they are now exploding into the world of therapeutics. Here are six of the most powerful ways…...
Forget Greek Yogurt. The Future is… Ant Yogurt
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (755+ words) Reviving a forgotten Balkan recipe shows how insects and microbes team up to ferment food. When you think of yogurt, you probably picture a neat plastic cup in the dairy aisle. The ingredients list is short and predictable: milk, bacteria,…...
Could AI and venom help us fight antibiotic resistance?
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (723+ words) Scientists used AI to mine animal venom for potent new antibiotics. Venom is a potent mix of molecules evolved to paralyze, kill, and destroy cells. But it could also hold some promising tools for the future. In a new Nature…...