Our main focus is in the muscle protein titin and other proteins that interact with titin and we use a range of biophysical and bioinformatics tools to try to understand the complex interplay between ...

The longest word to feature in the English dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis at 45 letters, which refers to a lung disease, which is caused only by inhaling silica particles ...

Now, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, Zhibin Guan and his colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, introduce a new synthetic polymer inspired by the protein titin ...

Consisting of a mind-blowing 45,212 amino acids, the PKZILLA-1 protein far surpasses the roughly 30,000 or so amino acids making up the previous record-holding protein, titin, found in human muscles.