Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?

A new AI model for biology, released today by Arc Institute and NVIDIA, can predict which mutations within a gene are likely to be harmful and even design small, eukaryotic genomes.

Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design have made a computationally-designed, multi-step enzyme.

Works in Progress and Asimov Press are launching a paid six-month fellowship.

Prions are extremely resilient, infectious proteins. Studying their shape-shifting abilities could reveal lessons for how proteins fold at a molecular level, helping scientists design better ones.

Serratia marcescens, a pathogen with an uncanny resemblance to blood, has had an outsized influence on modern science.

How genetics and IVF empowered a family to leave cancer behind.