Out of the box, crystalline MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) look like ordinary salt crystals. But MOFs are anything but ordinary crystals – deep within each crystalline "grain" lies an intricate network of thin, molecular ...
Materials Science
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Scientists from the Genomic Integrity and Structural Biology Group led by Rafael Fernández-Leiro at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered how certain proteins ensure the repair of errors introduced ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 6, 2021
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Using a combination of simulation and experimental techniques, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Material Science and Engineering researchers have been able to identify the electric double layer structure of an ionic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 17, 2022
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Semiconducting oxides are a new class of materials that are currently enjoying great attention in the field of semiconductor technology. Gallium oxide is the archetypal example for its ability to handle extremely high voltages ...
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2017
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The transport of substances across the membrane into the cell is linked to specific membrane transport proteins. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn, in collaboration with an international ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 4, 2022
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The human body consists of trillions of cells that constantly communicate with one another. A central role in this communication process is played by receptor proteins on the cell surface. Since they often serve as drug targets, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 6, 2022
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Recent years have seen the rise of bacterial pathogens that have developed resistance to antibiotics. One such superbug, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), kills hundreds of critically ill patients in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2024
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Organic semiconductors enable the fabrication of large-scale printed and mechanically flexible electronics applications, and have already successfully established themselves on the market for displays in the form of organic ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jan 30, 2019
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An international team that includes researchers at TU Darmstadt has gained new insights into the protein structure and function of the ion channels that control the heartbeat. The results have now been published in the journal ...
Biotechnology
Jul 1, 2021
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Ancient microbes that thrive in some of the world's most extreme environments and modern-day humans have more in common than meets the eye—namely, they both respire and conserve energy using a similar molecular mechanism, ...
Biochemistry
May 10, 2018
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