Protein Dynamics Are Predictable from The Amino Acid Sequence
Researchers from CNIO in Madrid and University College London have successfully predicted the movements a protein does to execute its functions. This remarkable advance...
Basic Research
Structural biology
Determining molecular structure – crystallography, cryo-EM, and the prediction models now competing with both.
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Genomic and Structural Big Data to Identify Cancer Drivers
A research team lead by the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has identified more than 100 new cancer drivers using the power of...
Bioinformatics
First Ever Direct Image of DNA Structure
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a technique that allowed them to visualize directly the DNA helix...
Basic Research
Protein 3D Structure Reveals New Information About Neurotransmitters Release
Scientists from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine have solved the 3D structure of the SNARE-synaptotagmin-1 complex that controls...
Basic Research
First Epigenetic Mechanism Involving Histone Tails Solved at Atomic Level
Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), the University of Cambridge, and New York University have discovered the structural mechanism of chromatin...
Basic Research
Fractal Globule Model of Chromatin Packing Reinforced
Scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University have strengthened the fractal globule model of chromatin packing. In their Physical Review Letters paper, the researchers present a...
Basic Research
Accurate and Simple Elastic Model of RNA Dynamics
Researchers from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy have found a simple but accurate method to study RNA dynamics. In...
Basic Research
IR Spectroscopy Gets Better with Graphene Sensor
In one of the firsts, researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) and The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) have created a sensor made...
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