Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have reported on the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein ...

Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections ...

Scientists have developed Rhobo6, a light microscopy probe that reveals extracellular matrix structures in live tissues, ...

The referred specimen of the enantiornithine bird Shangyang sp. (IVPP V 26899) was recovered near La-Ma-Dong Village in Jian-Chang County, within the Jiufotang Formation (dated ∼120 Ma). It can be ...

As someone whose PhD was in solid-state materials chemistry, and who spent a lot of time characterising those materials, the ...

However, if the dose is too high, the use of Botox can be fatal due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles. This can happen as a result of bacterial meat poisoning and is called botulism. To make the ...

The newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum possesses a potentially highly flexible cell wall: When water is ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

A recent project conducted by in-house researchers at the UK’s national synchrotron facility on its Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline, looked at how microplastics waste may interact with zinc oxide ...

RECENTLY, with the increase of the resolving power of the electron microscope, it has become ... for the first time in observing the lattice structure and the edge dislocation contained in it ...

General principles are formulated for the objective reconstruction of a three dimensional object from a set of electron microscope images. These principles are applied to the calculation of a ...

Current calibration methods rely on artificially constructed DNA structures or specific cellular features, each with significant drawbacks. DNA-based rulers require complex chemical synthesis and only ...