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A team has uncovered how certain soil microbes cope in a phosphorus-poor environment to survive in a tropical ecosystem. They used deep sequencing, mass spectrometry and metaproteomics to identify more than 7,000 proteins in each sample. Their novel approach could be applied in other ecosystems to study various nutrient limitations and inform agriculture and terrestrial biosphere modeling.

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have solved the first high-resolution crystal structure of the dopamine 2 receptor (DRD2) bound to the antipsychotic drug risperidone, yielding a long-awaited tool for drug developers, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists.

Artificial sweeteners are used in diet drinks and foods but also could someday be used as treatments targeting carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX), a protein associated with aggressive cancers.

Scientists have worked out the exact number of protein molecules contained in a cell and the answer seems strangely familiar...

A new synthetic hormone promises to tease apart the many different roles of the plant hormone auxin and could lead to a new way to ripen fruit.

Pax7, a transcription factor, is able to open up compacted genome segments to allow cell growth to occur properly.

The algorithm identified 10 times more peptide variations than all previous discoveries combined, aiding the hunt for new antibiotics.

A protein kinase that stops breast cancer cells growing and spreading has been outlined in new research.

A new technique that prolongs the lifespan of blood samples could be a breakthrough for liquid biopsy assays.

In a new study, scientists show that a targeted drug blocking the action of a cancer-driving protein can kill testicular cancer cells and, alongside chemotherapy, could reverse drug resistance.