It seems like every other day we hear about some hacker, tinkerer, maker, coder or one of the many other Do-It-Yourself engineer types getting their hands into a complex field once reserved to only a ...

A new study by chemists shows that X-ray crystallography, the standard method for determining the structure of proteins, can provide inaccurate information about membrane proteins, which in turn could ...

After a decade of persistent effort, researchers have obtained the first complete structure of a bacterial protein with one of the longest folded conformations of any known protein—600 nm in length.