The building blocks of proteins are amino acids, which are small organic molecules ... side chains. The chemistry of amino acid side chains is critical to protein structure because these side ...

To develop a small-molecule drug, researchers spend years combing through thousands of organic compounds ... But not all target proteins were receptive to this method, called structure-based ...

While AlphaFold and the subsequent AI revolution in biology garnered a lot of attention, the foundational bricks for the strides made in protein structure and design ... Anfinsen won the Nobel Prize ...

CHEM 401 / 501 Advanced Physical Chemistry CHEM 403 / 503 Advanced Organic Chemistry CHEM 415 / 515 Advanced Biochemistry CHEM 419 / 519 Bioinorganic Chemistry CHEM 453 Protein Structure & Function ...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper share this year’s Chemistry award for their research on protein design and structure prediction. Sneha Khedkar is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She ...

The 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Robert Lefkowitz ... "The key to understanding this family of proteins has been the determination of their molecular structure. "Now, half of all ...