Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.

The RNP complex is the influenza virus’s essential package, the virus’s blueprints and a copy machine all rolled in one. The ...

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a bioactive lipid derived from arachidonic acid, mediates a broad range of physiological processes ...

The Global Microscopy Market is expected to witness a CAGR of ~5-6% in the next 5 years. Prospects of microscopes in ...

Thick multicellular plant samples provide unique challenges when it comes to cryo-preservation, which has resulted in limited successful examples for structural studies using in situ cryo-electron ...

Cryogenic electron microscopy showed for the first time that large RNA complexes can assemble without the help of proteins, expanding our understanding of RNA folding and function.

Scientists at Columbia University have just mapped the exact molecular structure that makes us love sugar and artificial ...

Researchers explore how merging X-ray imaging and cryo-EM could enable real-time, high-resolution views of biology, advancing molecular films and drug design.

This study reports two cryo-EM structures of the Nipah virus (NiV) polymerase L-P complex in its full-length and truncated ...

Gabe Lander and Adrian Koh talk all things cryo-EM and its pivotal role in structural biology research in this feature.

Scientists have mapped the 3-D structure of the human sweet taste receptor, the molecular machine that allows us to taste sweet things. This could lead to the discovery of new regulators of the ...