An enzyme called TCPTP keeps a tight rein on damaged DNA

Put together a mixture of biologists, biochemists and physicists and you might get a lot of blank faces, particularly when hard-core physics is being discussed. However physics and biology have come together to solve one of science’s big issues – the structure of membrane proteins – through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science.

From testing fat in sausages to dissecting the proteome of the lung-infecting fungus Cryptococcus gattii – it’s been quite a journey for Associate Professor Ben Herbert, one of the speakers at this week’s AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns.

Agilent Technologies is showing off one of its new Q-TOF mass spectrometers at the AOHUPO/PRICPS conference in Cairns this week.

Salvador, Warts, Hippo and Yorkie are an eclectically named group of genes that form the core components of a signalling pathway in Drosophila that regulates control of organ size and may have some important parallels with human cancer.

Who would have thought that Chinese vegies, phosphopeptides and stressed mitochondria might advance the treatment of type 2 diabetes?

US researchers studying a protein involved in T cell development find it promotes breast cancer growth and spread.

Frances Shannon tells the Lorne protein conference about the role of architectural proteins and how the packaging of DNA in the cell nucleus controls immune-related gene expression.

One of the world's leading structural biologists, Helen Saibil, is bringing her knowledge -- and some spectacular images -- of molecular chaperones to the Lorne Protein conference.

The annual Lorne conferences begin this weekend. First up, protein structure and function, where we learn the tricks of the bacterial toy trade.

US researchers identify protein that stops the release of HIV by tethering it to the cell.