A new study explains how cholesterol-lowering medications can lead to muscle damage and identifies a possible approach to making these treatments safer. Statins have dramatically improved cardiovascul ...

What is Cryo-Electron Microscopy? Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules, such as proteins and ...

Collaboration between researchers at the University of Geneva, Institut de biologie structurale de Grenoble, and the University of Fribourg has shown how lipids and proteins in cell membranes react in ...

When the resolution is worse than 3 Å, ligands may still be visible, but the process of modeling becomes considerably more time-consuming and error-prone,” he said. “This underscores the need for ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Intellicule, a software company whose solutions determine the 3D structures of biomolecules imaged with cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), has received a $217,941 Small Business Innovation ...

Researchers have characterised the structure and function of a key protein that helps breast cancer cells survive.

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rare and severe neurodegenerative disease, caused by the massive and rapid accumulation of ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...