Biological molecules such as proteins can contain hundreds of thousands of atoms, which makes it very difficult to understand their function in detail. Identifying the exact atomic structure of these complex molecules is ...
General Physics
Jul 18, 2014
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An international team of researchers, led by the University of Leicester, has solved a long-standing mystery in biology, by identifying the molecular structure of a vital biological chemical. The debate – which has raged ...
Biochemistry
Jul 10, 2014
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An international team, led by Arizona State University scientists, has published today in Nature a groundbreaking study that shows the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water into protons, electrons ...
Materials Science
Jul 9, 2014
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For more than 100 years, scientists have "peered" at atoms in a crystal by analysing the way they scatter X-rays. This process, known as crystallography, reveals the chemical structure of compounds in the crystal and has ...
Materials Science
Jun 19, 2014
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The UK's structural biology community will have access to the most advanced crystallography technology in the world thanks to a £5.64M investment from UK research funders.
General Physics
Jun 2, 2014
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Anyone involved in macromolecular crystallography will know that for many years scientists have had to rely on a multi-stage process utilizing protein, usually expressed in engineered cells, which is then extracted and purified ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 2, 2014
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A University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) biology professor's experiment that is set to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) could shed new light on the roles enzymes play in biological processes.
Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2014
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Once again, computer screensavers have flexed their muscles and solved a great mystery of biology.
Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2014
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Computational biologists from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna show that averaging is not always a good thing when it comes to analyzing protein crystal structures. ...
Biochemistry
Feb 10, 2014
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UNESCO has declared 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography. But why? Quite simply because the science of crystallography has revolutionised how we live – and yet few people know about it.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 10, 2014
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