During translation, multiple ribosomes travel along the nucleic acid chain to build polypeptides that become functional proteins. Occasionally, these molecular decoders pause on the mRNA, either ...

In Alzheimer's disease, the degeneration of brain cells is linked to formation of toxic protein aggregates and deposits known as amyloid plaques. Similar processes play an important role also in type ...

At Analytica USA in Columbus, Ohio, Christian Mayer, a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, delivered a talk titled, “Spontaneous Structural Development of a ...