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An international team of researchers has discovered that a protein responsible for protecting some of our body's immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV succeeds in its quest because it starves the virus of the molecular building blocks it requires to replicate.

Have a tough time remembering where you put your keys, learning a new language or recalling names at a cocktail party? New research points to a molecule that is central to the process by which memories are stored in the brain.

Scientists have often wondered how woolly mammoths survived and thrived in the frigid climes of the far north in Earth’s last ice age. The hemoglobin in elephant (and human) blood cannot easily transfer oxygen to other cells in the body at low temperatures.

Molecular biology | Pop a “miracle berry” into your mouth, and you might wonder if it was named by an overreaching marketing department. The small red fruit tastes of very litt

I emailed with one of the University of Washington researchers working on the project about just how far this sort of gaming can go, who plays it, and more.

Gamers are starting to give biochemists a run for their money. An online computer game that challenges players to contort virtual proteins into shapes that resemble a protein’s genuine structure fared well in a competition to predict protein structures.

Players of an online game that allows users to adjust how proteins are folded have solved a decade-long protein structure mystery.

Researchers pump a cell full of Green Fluorescent Protein, then pump that full of energy, producing the first living cell that's also a laser.

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered particular plant enzymes that can make a big difference in food safety as the planet copes with two major problems: higher and higher levels of carbon dioxide and lower and lower water resources.