The deadly Ebola virus shields its RNA genetic material in coils of proteins called nucleocapsids (above). The lab of Juan Perilla at the University of
“This research can be viewed as a valuable conceptual framework for using this class of proteins in bioengineering applications,” said Alon Gorodetsky, UCI associate professor
This image shows the detailed structure of a “spike” from a coronavirus that causes cold symptoms – a milder relative of the virus that causes
Using the ESRF cryo-electron microscope and Small Angle X-ray Scattering at the ESRF’s beamline BM29, the researchers managed to decipher the role of ECSIT in
Francesco Stellacci in his lab. Credit: EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a synthetic molecule capable of killing the virus that causes influenza. They hope their
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For more than a decade, scientists studying epigenetics have used a powerful method called ChIP-seq to map changes in proteins and
Universal single-residue terminal labels for fluorescent live cell Imaging of microproteins. Credit: Simon Elsasser SciLifeLab Fellow Simon Elsässer laboratory at Karolinska Institutet reports a method,
Alicia Angelbello and Matthew Disney, PhD, in the Disney lab on Scripps Research’s Jupiter, Florida, campus. Credit: The Scripps Research Institute A new strategy for
UVA’s Hui-wang Ai, PhD, and Shen Zhang, PhD, have developed a simple and effective improvement to fluorescent “biosensors” widely used in scientific and medical research.
