There are more than 21,000 desalination plants around the world, according to statistics from the European Union, and those plants pump out about 99 million m 3 of fresh water every day. Some regions ...

Scientists at the VIB–VUB Center for Structural Biology have uncovered a counterintuitive principle that could reshape how membrane proteins are designed from scratch: Sometimes, making a protein less ...

Located at the cellular interface, membrane proteins play critical regulatory roles in the signaling between a cell and its interacting environment, making them popular and ideal drug targets.

In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order to actually freeze this water below 0°C, there must be something (a ...

David Baker’s research team at the Institute for Protein Design has unveiled a new technique for sequestering membrane proteins (Science 2026, DOI: 10.1126/science.adr3817). Proteins bound in cell ...

A small change in acidity can transform the world around us. A squeeze of lemon changes the taste of food. Vinegar preserves ...