Numerous BYU students, including Mikaila Sass (pictured), worked with Dr. Willardson in his lab on this discovery. The human body heavily relies on protein molecules for proper functioning. Protein ...

I recently attended the FASEB Summer Research Conference (SRC) entitled Protein Folding in the Cell. The conference was held at Vermont Academy, a boarding school in the small town of Saxtons River, ...

Just as a misshapen key can't open a lock, the proteins in our cells need to have the correct 3D shape to function properly. And defects in a protein's structure can cause diseases. Proteins are ...

Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular machines ...

Once thought of primarily as an intermediary between the coding portions of DNA and proteins, our understanding of RNA and its many functions has expanded greatly. While some types of RNA are indeed ...

Using data from RNA-folding experiments, the researchers generated the first-ever data-driven movies of how RNA folds as it is made by cellular machinery. By watching their videos of this folding ...