BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
...ein. "Increasingly, our discipline is faced with deciphering the structure of large, complex proteins in which ...to-end, and Ma said current techniques are good at deciphering all but the most flexible parts of proteins. But since form and function are inextricably linked in ...Now playing -- Cell migration LIVE!
...ory, Montell says. Now with real-time movies, were deciphering the nuances behind organized cell movement that should offer opportunities for hopefully regulating the process. Among the nuances identified is that just like migrating geese or a pack of bicyclists, individual border cells in the cluster each t...Damon Runyon names new class of rising stars in cancer research
..., at Stanford University, Stanford, California, is deciphering the role of newly discovered small RNAs in the regulation of the hepatitis C virus, a novel approach with implications for liver cancer antiviral therapies. Katharina Schlacher, PhD, with her sponsor Maria Jasin, PhD, at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...pyrosequencing method to overcome the difficulties deciphering repetitive regions of DNA templates. The current pyrosequencing method utilizes unmodified DNA base pairs and polymerases to synthesize DNA and a firefly enzyme to generate a chemiluminescent signal. Jingyue Ju, Ph.D., Columbia University, New Yo...