MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a ...

A new Yale study aims to settle a longstanding question about photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have discovered the mechanism behind an important step in the life ...

Scientists have made enormous advances in understanding the structures of proteins over the past several decades. Imaging ...

The molecular structure of the motor component that powers the gliding apparatus of Mycoplasma mobile, one of the few mycoplasma bacteria that can move, has been revealed using cryo-electron ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells ...

Now, a cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of a stalled PAR6–aPKC–LGL complex addresses this conundrum. Peptide synthesis on the ribosome can be blocked by certain peptide motifs.

Researchers reveal new insights into the how the matrix layer of HIV-1 becomes matureResearchers from the Max Planck ...

Vitamin K is essential for blood clotting and other physiological functions. Cryo-EM has revealed how it works, which could ...

Researchers have investigated the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein complex crucial to the photosynthesis of purple sulfur bacteria thriving in high-salt, high-alkaline ...