News tagged with protein dynamics

SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use light to move molecules

Using a light-triggered chemical tool, Johns Hopkins scientists report that they have refined a means of moving individual molecules around inside living cells and sending them to exact locations at precise times.

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shedding light on a protein, and a future

While on a research co-op in London, Northeastern University senior Brendon Kellner investigated the inner workings of certain proteins through state-of-the-art ultrafast lasers. These lasers generate light ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dancing in the dark: scientists shed new light on protein-salt interactions

To study nanostructures in real environments, Berkeley Lab scientists have combined theoretical and experimental approaches to glimpse into a protein’s interaction with simple salts in water. Enabled by x-ray absorption ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique allows study of protein folding, dynamics in living cells

A new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of University of Illinois scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study focuses on protein dynamics

A discovery by associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry Brian Baker and his research group at the University of Notre Dame reveals the importance of dynamic motion by proteins involved in the body's immune response. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome (w/ Video)

Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used molecular ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

New tag could enable more detailed structural studies of mammalian proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- To say our genes are resourceful is a gross understatement. Through ingenious combinations of a paltry 20 amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, genes engineer all of the tissues and organs that ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers 'unzip' molecules to measure interactions keeping DNA packed in cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly -- and then to pull hard. A Cornell research team's experiments involve the "unzipping" ...

Biology /

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0