Scientists from Stanford and IBM have improved the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging by 100 million times using a new technique for measuring tiny magnetic forces. The information gained from this new technique could broaden the potential for targeted drug design.

Tagged: MRI, nanoscale, proteins, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Age-related degeneration of tissues, organs and, yes, even facial skin with which we all struggle is an active, deliberate process rather than a gradual failure of tired cells, say Stanford researchers. Derailing or slowing this molecular betrayal, although still far in the future, may enable us to one day tack years onto our lives — or at least delay the appearance of that next wrinkle.

Tagged: aging, proteins, Human Health, Medicine

Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function.

Tagged: DNA, genetics, proteins, Human Health, Medicine

Medical school researchers have uncovered an extensive, but until now barely noticed, network of regulatory interactions that influence what proteins are made inside a cell, and when and where.

Tagged: genetics, proteins, Human Health, Medicine

Medical school investigators have found a way to quickly and reversibly fine-tune the activity of individual proteins in cells and living mammals. This could help to speed the development of therapies in which cancer-fighting proteins are selectively delivered to tumors.

Tagged: cancer, proteins, Human Health, Medicine

“Biology is a science in flux because it has gone from being purely experimental on small scales to becoming an information science on a large scale,” says Daphne Koller, who is is leveraging artificial intelligence to infer what’s happening in complex biological systems.

Tagged: artificial intelligence, biology, proteins, Human Health, Engineering

Researchers identified potential new targets for cancer treatments by disovering two new proteins making up telomerase, an enzyme that maintains cells' genetic material.

Tagged: cancer, genes, proteins, telomerase, Human Health, Medicine

Building on a newly rigorous understanding of the building blocks of life, two bioengineering professor are custom engineering peptides, small snippets of proteins, to fight disease.

Tagged: bioengineering, cancer, proteins, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine

A protein previously implicated in colon cancer now appears to have an additional role in preventing cells from dividing, a finding that could lead to new cancer therapies.

Tagged: cancer, healthcare, proteins, Human Health, Medicine