Caltech scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the massive protein machine that controls access to the DNA-containing heart of the cell.
Biochemistry
Apr 15, 2016
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Sunday, November 8 marks the 120th anniversary of one of the greatest moments in the history of science: an obscure German physics professor's discovery of the X-ray. His name was Wilhelm Roentgen, and in the six weeks that ...
General Physics
Nov 6, 2015
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Atoms are the building blocks of all matter on Earth, and the patterns in which they are arranged dictate how strong, conductive or flexible a material will be. Now, scientists at UCLA have used a powerful microscope to image ...
Nanophysics
Sep 21, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of California have succeeded in stretching a carbon monoxide molecule bond to a record length. In their paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry, the team describes how they ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have imaged the self-assembly of nano-particles, unveiling the blueprint for building designer molecular machines atom-by-atom.
Nanophysics
Jan 4, 2010
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(Phys.org)—Creating 3D visualizations of hydrogen atoms in proteins is especially challenging, often requiring their locations to be inferred from those of nearby carbon, nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atoms stored in protein ...
A wide variety of fruits and vegetables contain oxalate. But humans and most other animals lack the ability to metabolize this molecule—that is, to break it down while digesting it. And so for some people, a buildup of ...
Biochemistry
Dec 29, 2015
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A new study published in PeerJ uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. Two new ichthyosaur specimens—one complete animal and one tail—are the first to preserve outer body shape ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 7, 2022
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Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that synthetic nanoparticles can achieve the same level of structural complexity, hierarchy and accuracy as their natural counterparts - biomolecules. The study, published ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 23, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Biological systems are characterized by a form of molecular recycling – and proteins do not escape this fate. In particular, unneeded or damaged proteins biochemically marked for destruction undergo controlled ...
