A research team led by Sahand Jamal Rahi at EPFL’s Laboratory of the Physics of Biological Systems has introduced a new ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Cell in March 2026 introduces “optovolution,” an in vivo directed-evolution system that ...

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

When specialized cells called tanycytes stop working, disease-causing tau proteins build up in the brain. A group of specialized cells play a crucial part in clearing toxic proteins from inside the ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers have used that green fluorescent protein and similar molecules to light up ...

A new strategy developed by Professor Nathan Gianneschi grabs cancer-driving proteins and directs them to the cell’s disposal ...

Even in mice with existing amyloid plaques, one injection of the gene therapy was associated with a roughly 50 percent ...

Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to ...

Legislation that would place a five-year moratorium on having or selling cell-cultured protein in South Dakota has received final approval from state lawmakers and will soon be ...

The new generation of Alzheimer's disease drugs—the first proven to change the course of the disease—typically extend ...