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Protein problem: Researchers challenge fundamental assumption in evolutionary biochemistry

How did life originate? Ancient proteins may hold important clues. Every organism on Earth is made up of proteins. Although all organisms—even single-celled ones—have complex protein structures now, ...
News Medical

Cutting-edge spectroscopy methods for protein analysis

Accurately and rapidly quantifying protein content is essential for modern biology, biochemistry, and biophysics laboratories worldwide. Researchers are focused on determining total protein content, ...
EurekAlert!

Study: Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual biochemistry. They ...
The Globe and Mail

USC Biochemistry Graduate Student Aaliyah S. Tyson Challenges Traditional G-Protein Coupled Receptor Pharmacotherapy Principles in her First Published White Paper

“Molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism via k-opioid receptor-G protein complexes” was published by Nature Chemical Biology and can be reviewed now at Nature.com Aaliyah S. Tyson, a pioneering young ...