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Chaperones Do the Two-Step

Chaperones Do the Two-Step

03.12.2020
Structural Biology, Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Understanding how certain proteins work as a team could shed new light on the way cells defend themselves against neurodegenerative disease
Freezing with Lasers Creates Aligned Ice Crystals

Freezing with Lasers Creates Aligned Ice Crystals

12.10.2020
Nano Physics, Materials Science
Supercooled water zapped in just the right way enabled perfect control over the process
Ancient Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

Ancient Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

05.10.2020
Robotics and Machine Learning, Materials Science, Scientific Archaeology
A study of these tools suggests skilled control over heating flint to produce different forms
Dropping in: How Street-Corner Organelles Come Together

Dropping in: How Street-Corner Organelles Come Together

15.09.2020
Structural Biology
Synthetic cells reveal the secrets of protein affinity in living cells
Carbon Dioxide Helps to Solve the Mystery of Water’s Instant Electrofreezing

Carbon Dioxide Helps to Solve the Mystery of Water’s Instant Electrofreezing

13.09.2020
Materials Science
Experiments on water freezing in the presence of an electric charge may help improve cloud seeding and lead to other practical applications...
landau level tomography

Magic Material Made with a Twist

27.08.2020
Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Materials Science
A newly identified kind of disorder may lead to new "twistronics"
Folded, but Not Insolvent

Folded, but Not Insolvent

26.08.2020
Structural Biology, Biochemistry
Could protein segments be more “exposed” when they’re folded?
Fluorescent image of artificial cells on a chip. The differences in genetic composition between cells produced the different colors, which reveal stages in building parts of a virus

Artificial Cells Produce Parts of Viruses for Safe Studies

20.07.2020
Nanoscience, Materials Science, Viruses & Microorganisms, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
The Weizmann Institute of Science group demonstrated the production of protein assembly lines on a silicon chip 
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RNAs Take a Plunge

24.06.2020
Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology
A shower of hyperpolarized water opens new avenues for the NMR study of biological molecules 
colorful circles

Cracking Non-Classical Crystal Formation

16.06.2020
Nanoscience, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
Some crystals do not come together as predicted. New research explains why

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A Secret Recipe for Colorful and Versatile Animal Crystals

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A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking
An image of tissue from the human small intestine obtained with the help of fluorescent dyes that made it possible to mark numerous proteins in parallel, thereby mapping out the various proteins produced in each part of the intestinal villi
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Navigating the Digestive Tract