Our bodies have to sense our environment, and receptors are one part of the sensory experience of the body. Receptors, such as those in taste buds, can interact with specific things in the environment ...

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D structures of flexible sugar molecules. By growing crystals of galectin-10 ...

Senior author Professor Richard Payne from the University of Sydney. Professor Payne has just been appointed Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Peptide and Protein Engineering.