Myoglobin is responsible for oxygen storage in cells. But how does oxygen travel through the solid protein wall to be anchored by an iron atom deep within the protein? Scientists have now provided a ...

HOUSTON -- (Sept. 25, 2015) -- The ultra-stable properties of the proteins that allow deep-diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help Rice University ...

Unlike humans, many whales can go on hour-long dives without needing to breathe. But no one has been sure how they did it. Now, new research shows it all comes down to a specially adapted ...

Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us -- and all the other animals on the planet -- beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains ...

Washington: Proteins that allow deep-diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help create life-saving synthetic blood for human patients, researchers, ...

Myoglobin—the first protein for which a 3D structure was determined by x-ray crystallography—still has some tricks up its sleeve, or in its pocket. This is the pocket into which myoglobin’s ...

Animals have evolved a variety of ways to get oxygen under extreme conditions. Enrico Rezende, an animal physiologist at the University of Roehampton in London, says that all three papers are looking ...