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‘It opens up a whole new universe’: Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time
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‘It opens up a whole new universe’: Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time

A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures yet — and, for the first time, discerned individual atoms in a protein. By achieving atomic resolution using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), researchers will be able to understand, in unprecedented detail, the workings of proteins that cannot easily be examined by...

X-ray experiments zero in on COVID-19 antibodies
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X-ray experiments zero in on COVID-19 antibodies

As scientists across the globe race to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, an international team led by Davide Corti at Vir Biotechnology and David Veesler at the University of Washington has been working around the clock on a complementary approach – identifying neutralizing antibodies that could be used as a...

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Crystal structure reveals how curcumin impairs cancer

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO Through x-ray crystallography and kinase-inhibitor specificity profiling, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Peking University and Zhejiang University, reveal that curcumin, a natural occurring chemical compound found in the spice turmeric, binds to the kinase enzyme dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 2 (DYRK2) at the atomic...