Uri Manor’s own hearing loss may not have originally inspired his research path, but his work on the topic now may lead to ...

How proteins in our cells attain their correct three-dimensional structure is crucial to their function—and to our health. Errors in this process can lead to serious diseases. Researchers at the ...

The beautiful, fascinating and often perplexing world around us grows from intricate and convoluted interactions of millions ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells—and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible?

A team at Scripps Research has created a microchip that can rapidly reveal how a person's antibodies respond to viruses using only a drop of blood. This game-changing technology, called mEM, condenses ...

Following the success of the first volume of Aptamer-based structural biology, computational biology, translational research and drug discovery, this research topic is aimed at providing researchers ...

Research from University of Cincinnati structural biologists has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They used cryogenic electron microscopy to see two key ...

The researchers’ efforts reveal the flu virus’s replication mechanism and its essential structural bits, knowledge that is important for designing paninfluenza drugs.

This study presents the cryo-EM structure of the EP1 receptor in complex with PGE 2 and Gq protein, completing the structural framework for the EP receptor family and filling a critical gap in our ...

Additionally, cryo-EM is transforming cellular and structural biology by allowing researchers to observe the structure of proteins and biomolecular complexes in-situ within cells and tissue.

Structural biology is used to understand the three-dimensional shape of biological molecules and how their shape enables them to function both inside and outside of cells. Furthermore, the ...

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital to cellular life, constantly reshapes and reorganizes itself. As a ...