Advances in biomaterials for drug delivery are enabling significant progress in biology and
medicine. Multidisciplinary collaborations between physical scientists, engineers, biologists …

There are many examples of bioactive proteins and peptides that would benefit from oral
delivery through functional foods, supplements, or medical foods, including hormones …

The degree of evolutionary conservation of an amino acid in a protein or a nucleic acid in
DNA/RNA reflects a balance between its natural tendency to mutate and the overall need to …

Many mutations disappear from the population because they impair protein function and/or
stability. Thus, amino acid positions that are essential for proper function evolve more slowly …

Patterns observed by examining the evolutionary relationships among proteins of common
origin can reveal the structural and functional importance of specific residue positions. In …

Proteins are “social molecules.” Recent experimental evidence supports the notion that
large protein aggregates, known as biomolecular condensates, affect structurally and …

Stimuli-responsive biopolymer hydrogels are promising building blocks for biomedical
devices, attributable to their excellent hydrophilicity, biocompatibility, and dynamic …

Nanoparticles are widely used for biomedical applications such as vaccine, drug delivery,
diagnostics, and therapeutics. This study aims to reveal the influence of nanoparticle surface …

In polymer science, thermoresponsiveness refers to macromolecular systems that display a
marked and discontinuous change in their physical properties with temperature. Such smart …

Protein language models (pLMs) capture some aspects of the grammar of the language of
life as written in protein sequences. The so-called pLM embeddings implicitly contain this …