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 ...

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 ...

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 ...