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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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New expansion microscopy methods can magnify nanoscale structures: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The development of expansion microscopy has enabled previously unseen views of the interior of cells and other nanoscale structures. Future research in many different biological and medical fields, including pathology, neuroscience, and others, may benefit from the advancements.
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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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Researchers discover how oxytocin drives connections of newly integrated a
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The brain's plasticity--its capacity to change itself by reorganising preexisting neural networks and establishing new ones to acquire new functional properties--makes it possible to learn a new task, master a musical instrument, or adjust to the environment's constant change. Additionally,
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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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Researchers discover new method for treating skin infections and wounds
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Calgary [Canada], August 14 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Calgary have discovered a potentially effective new method for treating bacterial skin infections.
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Giant filamentous bacteria found in mangroves of Guadeloupe: Research
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Researchers describe the morphological and genomic features of a 'macro' microbe' -- a giant filamentous bacterium composed of a single cell discovered in the mangroves of Guadeloupe. Using various microscopy techniques, the team also observed novel, membrane-
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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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