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Cornell researchers have used artificial intelligence to uncover a previously unknown way cells control how proteins move inside them, a process essential for growth, communication and movement, and one that is often disrupted in cancer.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Chris Fromme and Saket Bagde gather around several computer monitors looking at the structure of a polyketide synthase enzyme

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The new findings published in Science capture never-before-recorded stages of a molecular construction process, with implications for future pharmaceutical development.
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics

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And while scientists have identified enzymes that remove a chemical modification known as lysine myristoylation – a “code” used for cell signaling – the enzymes that add such modifications have proved elusive. Knowledge of such modifications...

  • Biology
  • Microbiology