SOD1 Trimeric Species Causes Neuron Death and ALS
Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have solved the structure of a toxic protein aggregate that causes Amiotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)....
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Structural biology
Determining molecular structure – crystallography, cryo-EM, and the prediction models now competing with both.
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The Bucaramanga Giant Who Crossed the Atlantic for Science
Jhon Alex Rodriguez Buitrago is a Colombian structural biologist who left his country to pursue a scientific career that has already taken him to Spain,...
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From Russia with Love… for Science
Labcritics presents a lengthy interview with Elizaveta Katorcha, a Russian scientist working in the US. The structural biologist and X-ray spectroscopist talks about her love for...
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Diamonds Increase Sensitivity of NMR and MRI
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have hyperpolarized carbon-13 nuclei in...
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3D Map of Human Genome Helps Understand Gene Regulation
Researchers from Whitehead Institute have solved the 3D structure of the human genome in human adult cells and embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Knowing the location of genes...
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New Imaging Tool Maps Cellular Anatomy in 3D
A new imaging device can map the interior of a cell in 3D at the nanoscale. The special mass spectrometer, developed by engineers at Colorado...
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Artificial Materials Inspired by a Sea Mollusk Shell and Eyes
Scientists from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have discovered how a biomineral can generate two mollusk structures as different as the...
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A New Nanopore Sequencer with Graphene Technology
Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new nanopore sequencing method based on graphene nanoribbons that detects double and single stranded DNA in...
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