Lipids are essential building blocks of cell membranes, which control the exchange of substances and energy between a cell and its environment. A new open-source software tool developed at the Moscow Institute of Physics ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2020
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Scientists from the University of Groningen have developed a method that combines different resolution levels in a computer simulation of biological membranes. Their algorithm backmaps a large-scale model that includes features ...
Biotechnology
May 8, 2020
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Understanding and controlling ion transport in porous materials and at hydrophobic interfaces is critical to a wide variety of energy and environmental technologies, ranging from ion selective membranes, drug delivery and ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 23, 2020
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Researchers in Germany identified the precise structural differences that determine if a protein becomes an active enzyme or an iron scaffold. This finding, reported in Nature Communications, provides deeper insight into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 22, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have used molecular dynamics simulations to understand how sodium dodecyl sulfate causes protein unfolding. SDS is commonly used in labs to separate proteins and ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 17, 2020
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Fair or not, airplanes have a reputation for germs. However, there are ways to minimize the risks.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 30, 2020
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Chemists at Texas A&M University are taking a p[h]age from bacteria's playbook in order to beat viruses at their own game and develop new drugs to fight cancer and a host of other human diseases in the process.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 19, 2020
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In a new report published in Science Advances, Sulgiye Park and a research team in geological sciences, materials and energy sciences, advanced research and advanced radiation sources in the U.S. and Beijing, China, developed ...
Proteins denature, or "cook" in heat, irreversibly changing their structure, like how an egg boils or a slab of sirloin turns to steak. This prevents proteins from being used in applications where they would need to withstand ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 28, 2020
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Experimental data and computer simulations have yielded an innovative technique to characterize the configurations of an RNA molecule. The work, published in Nucleic Acids Research, opens new roads to studying dynamic molecular ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 23, 2020
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