A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has identified a key mechanism responsible for endosomal recycling in cells, a process critical to human health. Their findings, published in ...

RyR1 structures reveal that neighboring calcium channels cooperate during opening, while mutations at their interface may ...

Back in 2008, the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI, debuted a one-of-a-kind resource for understanding biology at the smallest scales — a state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscope. By ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have revealed how muscle cell calcium channels open ...

In the crowded nucleus of every human cell, the two-metre stretch of DNA in each chromosome is constantly being read, folded ...

A cell's ability to repair its damaged DNA is one of the most fundamental processes in biology, helping protect us from ...

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 ...

Diamond Light Source is one of the world’s most advanced scientific facilities. Located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, it houses the UK’s national synchrotron facility ...

From paints and inks to catalysts and drug-delivery materials, many advanced technologies rely on substances dispersed in organic solvents. Yet directly observing these materials in their native ...