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A tick embedded into skin.
What Makes a Tick Stick?
Ticks form a stable structure around their mouth to stick to their hosts for days. Phase transitions of proteins in the tick saliva drive this adhesion.
What Makes a Tick Stick?
What Makes a Tick Stick?

Ticks form a stable structure around their mouth to stick to their hosts for days. Phase transitions of proteins in the tick saliva drive this adhesion.

Ticks form a stable structure around their mouth to stick to their hosts for days. Phase transitions of proteins in the tick saliva drive this adhesion.

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How Stem Cells Stay Young
Rohini Subrahmanyam, PhD | Nov 13, 2024 | 4 min read
Bone marrow stem cells defy typical aging, and it may be because they express the right proteins.
Collection of green and blue proteins with different conformations on a black background.
The Dynamic Lives of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Sep 13, 2024 | 10+ min read
Shapeshifting proteins challenge a long-standing maxim in biology.
Infographic depicting the variety of conformations that proteins can assume and how this facilitates multifunctionality.
Infographic: Shapeshifters in the Proteome
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Sep 13, 2024 | 2 min read
Textbooks often depict proteins as nicely folded three-dimensional structures, but many proteins are far from it.
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