Using electron microscopy, researchers illustrate FusB's role in antibiotic resistance, providing a molecular-level ...

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An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

This valuable study reports the conservation of sperm-egg envelope binding by demonstrating successful recognition of the micropyle in fish eggs by the mouse sperm. However, the evidence supporting ...

At sufficiently high concentrations, some of the compounds called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances self-organize into two ...

Molecular Analytics and Photonics (MAP) Laboratory, Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, United States Molecular ...

The emergence of cryo-electron microscopy ... conformational changes in cell motility, protein synthesis, chaperone action, channel activation, virus fusion and membrane pore formation.

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron ... where cell biologists Michael and Mary Reedy let him tinker. Before long, Ward was helping build the components of microscope cameras and ...

The advantages to cell-derived membrane vesicles are multiple ... containing plasma membrane vesicles was collected on a 300 keV Titan Krios transmission electron microscope equipped with a cold-field ...

The term suggests a device for scanning broccoli, but it is utter nonsense. There are scanning electron microscopes and tunnelling electron microscopes, but not vegetative electron microscopes.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Modifying ultracold liquid helium electron microscopy by replacing copper specimen holders with gold and reducing hole size minimizes ice expansion and movement ...

In high-grade DCIS cells, they observed that cell crowding led to an increase in the number of various proteins on the plasma membrane of the cells. In particular, there was a striking 153-fold ...