Its structure, as revealed by the electron microscope, mirrors its function It is the mitochondrion, a small body which appears to play a central role in the oxidation of foodstuff.
Using cryo-electron microscopy and AI, researchers at the University of Missouri have mapped ApoB100, a key protein in LDL ...
Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...
Biological motors, which aid microorganism movement in fluids, are composed of two components—the rotor and stators. Despite ...
This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...
The membrane that surrounds cells in living organisms is extremely ... been able to gain fascinating new insights using cryo-electron microscopy. Their work is published in the journal Nature ...
Current optical and electron microscopy imaging techniques are not suited for measuring the dynamic characteristics of living microorganisms at tiny scales due to complex sample preparation methods or ...