New light for shaping electron beams

Adaptive imaging technique for materials science and structural biology

03-Oct-2022 - A new technique that combines electron microscopy and laser technology enables programmable, arbitrary shaping of electron beams. It can potentially be used for optimizing electron optics and for adaptive electron microscopy, maximizing sensitivity while minimizing beam-induced damage. This ...

New Max Planck Institute in Göttingen Combines Natural and Medical Sciences

Largest institute in the Max Planck Society

05-Jan-2022 - The Göttingen-based Max Planck Institutes (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine have merged as of January 1, 2022. This will establish a new MPI, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. It will cover a much broader spectrum of research, thus promoting ...

New enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products

05-Jul-2018 - An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered and characterized a new family of cytochrome P450 enzymes that is critical to improving the conversion of lignin--one of the main ...

CCDC Launches The FAIRE Programme to Support International Crystallography

31-Aug-2017 - The Frank H. Allen International Research & Education Programme to provide long-term grants to enable academic structural chemistry studies in developing countries. The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (The CCDC) announces the creation of a programme to support structural chemistry research ...

From super to ultra-resolution microscopy

07-Jul-2016 - Proteins mostly do not work in isolation but rather make up larger complexes like the molecular machines that enable cells to communicate with each other, move cargo around in their interiors or replicate their DNA. Our ability to observe and track each individual protein within these machines is ...

Water is an active element in proteins

Bochum’s researchers discover proton diode

30-Sep-2010 - Biophysicists in Bochum have discovered a diode for protons: just like the electronic component determines the direction of flow of electric current, the “proton diode” ensures that protons can only pass through a cell membrane in one direction. Water molecules play an important role here as ...

Science begins at the world's most powerful X-ray laser

04-Nov-2009 - The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Illuminating objects and processes at unprecedented speed and scale, the LCLS has embarked on ...

Developing enzymes to clean up pollution by explosives

13-Oct-2009 - Scientists at the University of York have uncovered the structure of an unusual enzyme which can be used to reverse the contamination of land by explosives. The discovery, by scientists in the York Structural Biology Laboratory and the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, will support the ...

Pairing Nanoparticles with Proteins

New ways to tag, engineer molecules for energy conversion, drug delivery, and medical imaging

29-Jun-2007 - In groundbreaking research, scientists have demonstrated the ability to strategically attach gold nanoparticlesto proteins so as to form sheets of protein-gold arrays. The nanoparticles and methods to create nanoparticle-protein complexes can be used to help decipher protein structures, to ...

Bruker AXS Establishes New X-Ray Life-Sciences Laboratory For Protein Crystallization and Macromolecular Structure Determination

15-Apr-2005 - Bruker AXS, Inc. announced the establishment of a new laboratory in Delft, equipped with the latest state-of-the-art X-ray instrumentation and technologies for the determination of 3D crystal structures of small molecules and proteins. This laboratory will incorporate robotic facilities for the ...