The race to crack one of biology’s grandest challenges — predicting the 3D structures of proteins from their amino-acid sequences — is intensifying, thanks to
EDITOR’S CHOICE IN GENETICS & GENOMICS The paper M.D.W. Piper bracelets et al., “Matching dietary amino acid balance to the in silico–translated exome optimizes growth
Cancer cells have an unnatural appetite for certain amino acids—nonessential amino acids that healthy cells produce themselves, usually in amounts sufficient for ordinary metabolism. If