The exocyst is a hetero-octameric complex that has been proposed to serve as the tethering complex for exocytosis, although it remains poorly understood at the molecular level. Here, we purified ...

The nascent large (60S) ribosomal subunit undergoes an ordered series of final maturation steps in the cytoplasm before it becomes competent to enter translation 1. In particular, the Shwachman-Bodian ...

Subunit vaccines use a small part of a pathogen to train our immune system to fight off future infection. They cannot cause disease but may need the addition of other chemicals for the vaccine to ...

Find out how different vaccines for the coronavirus cause your body to create antibodies that fight the virus.

Since SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, it is important to assess how our understanding of this virus has changed post-pandemic. Dr. Jamie Guenthoer, a staff scientist in the Overbaugh lab at Fred ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv pre-print* server, a team of researchers developed a broadly reactive and stable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 spike protein subunit 2 ...

A new kind of COVID-19 vaccine could be available as soon as this summer. It's what's known as a protein subunit vaccine. It works somewhat differently from the current crop of vaccines authorized for ...