Multiple research fronts saw major advances on April 24, 2026, with AI models driving new capabilities in protein interaction prediction, automated protein design, and earthquake engineering ...

Merve Ceylan is a dietitian and health writer with four years of experience writing for companies in the nutrition and health industry. Both whey and plant protein support muscle growth and daily ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Green fluorescent protein has an iconic structure. National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health via Flickr, CC BY-NC Fruit flies, mice, zebra fish, yeast and the tiny ...

Motivation: Proteins function through motion. Yet, most discoveries still commence with static representations of protein structures. Here, we investigated the feasibility of leveraging protein ...

After a Consumer Reports investigation revealed that some popular protein powders and shakes contained troubling levels of lead, many readers wrote in with a simple question: What does this mean for ...

Most women need at least 46 grams of protein per day. Women older than 65 need about 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight to maintain muscle mass. Eating a high-protein diet over 2 grams per ...

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting how proteins will interact with small molecules, such as drugs. The model, OpenFold3, which launched ...

Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

Abstract: Protein remote homology detection is crucial in various biological tasks, such as protein function annotation and structure prediction. Computational methods have been developed to improve ...