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AIIMS scientists develop new method to diagnose Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
According to Dr Subhash Chandra Yadav from the Electron Microscope Facility, Department of Anatomy, AIIMS Delhi, this method is the first of its kind in India.
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Researchers give insights into cell's repair system
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In living organisms, the membrane that encloses the cells is incredibly delicate and flexible. Many biological activities depend on how it repairs and protects itself from harm, yet this process is still poorly understood. Researchers at Forschungszentrum Julich have now used cryo-electron m
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Researchers find out how to solve structure of immune-evading HIV protein
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The "viral infectivity factor (Vif)" of the HIV-1 virus can inhibit cellular defences. Cryo-electron microscopy has now been used by OIST researchers Prof. Matthias Wolf and Dr. Takahide Kouno as well as a global team of collaborators to discover the atomic structure of the "APOBEC3G-Vif com
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SPOP protein contributes to cancer: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
SPOP is the most mutated protein in prostate cancer and plays a role in endometrial, uterine and other cancers. Despite this importance, how SPOP mutations drive cancer has been incompletely understood. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-E
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Atomic structure of staphylococcal bacteriophage using cryo-electron micro
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to infect Staphylococcus epidermidis, and high-resolution knowledge of structure is a key link bet
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Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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Researchers reveal how filaments form coiled shapes
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): The ability of E. coli and other bacteria to travel has long been a mystery, but it has now been resolved by researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and its associates.
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Study: Gene linked to severe learning disabilities governs cell stress res
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Duke (North Carolina) [US] May 31 (ANI): According to a new study, a gene that has been linked to severe learning problems in humans also plays a key role in cells' reaction to environmental stress. Rad6 has been linked to a group of symptoms known as 'Nascimento Syndrome,' which includes si
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Scientists develop subcellular map of complete brain network
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
London [England], May 25 (ANI): Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed an imaging technology that can collect information on the shape and function of brain tissue at the subcellular level - a few billionths of a metre - as well as information about the surrounding environ
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Thermo Fisher Scientific's Cryo- Electron Microscopy Solutions to Help Dri
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 12 (ANI/PNN): Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently deployed the state-of-the-art cryo-transmission electron microscope at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, Telangana.
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Cryo-electron microscopy facility opens in Hyderabad
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 25 (ANI): A cryo-electron microscopy facility has been inaugurated on Friday by Dr Shekhar Mande, Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Telangana's Hyderabad.
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Coronavirus attaches to receptor on respiratory cells, hijack them to prod
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Hangzhou [China], Mar 12 (ANI): Coronavirus attaches to a receptor on respiratory cells in the human body and hijack them to produce more viruses, scientists revealed.
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