A research team led by Prof. Feng Wei at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made significant ...

Now, researchers used cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to elucidate the structure of the Nipah virus polymerase complex (the ...

This manuscript describes the identification and characterization of 12 specific phosphomimetic mutations in the recombinant full-length human tau protein that trigger tau to form fibrils. This ...

The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) announced on the 8th that it has introduced a 300 kV class high-resolution cryo-electron microscope (Cryo-EM) and held a ceremony to ...

The bacterial cell wall is crucial to maintain viability. It has previously been suggested that Gram-positive bacteria have a periplasmic region between the cell membrane and peptidoglycan cell wall ...

Ribosomal translation is the process by which cells synthesize proteins based on the genetic instructions encoded in ...

Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

The microscope's inventors won the Nobel Prize ... Nature is the supreme molecular architect, and we need techniques like cryo-EM to see the details of what she builds," Finn explained.

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for ...