Sentences with word «biomolecule»

PhD student Clara Hedegaard, leading author of the paper, added: «This method enables the possibility to build 3D structures by printing multiple types of biomolecules capable of assembling into well defined structures at multiple scales.

«For developing cryo - electron microscopy for the high - resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution,» the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Chemistry Prize to Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Joachim Frank of Columbia University in New York City, and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.

«There's a school of thought that the reason enzymes work better in cells than in solution is because the concentration of enzymes surrounded by other biomolecules in cells is about 1,000 to 10,000 time more than in standard biochemistry lab conditions,» said Eric Ackerman, PNNL chief scientist and senior author of a related study that appears today in the journal Nanotechnology.

«This is a huge breakthrough toward the ultimate goal of producing molecular movies that reveal the dynamics of biomolecules with unparalleled speed and precision.»

Then Baker takes 250 milligrams of the bone (about 0.01 ounce), grinds it into a powder, and uses silica to separate all the other biomolecules from the pure DNA.

Professor Kim and his research team used a magnetic field in order to overcome the drawback that the movement of biomolecules such as proteins and DNA is slow when the transport only depends on diffusion.

Oxidative stress can cause oxidative damage to large biomolecules such as proteins, DNA, and lipids, resulting in an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease (8, 10).

(A) Different biomolecules on the surface of prepared silver nanoparticles (linker not shown); (B) in cell culture media the nanoparticle - water interface is composed of ligands and ions but also of proteins, the so - called protein corona.

But this year Alan Cooper, head of the Ancient Biomolecules Centre at Oxford University, showed that the teeth were most likely contaminated with a modern — not a medieval — strain of Yersinia.

The previous discovery of soft, pliable tissues recovered from the dissolved remains of Tyrannosaur bone in 2005 [1], potentially marked a major turning point in the science of paleontology given that it extended the known range of preserved biomolecules by many orders of magnitude.

The work could make it easier for researchers to fabricate research tools such as complex DNA and protein arrays in which thousands of different biomolecules are dotted across surfaces in order to search for novel drugs or drug targets.

An international team, including scientists from Arizona State University, the University of Milwaukee - Madison (UMW), and Germany's Deutsches Elektronen - Synchrotron (DESY), have caught a light sensitive biomolecule at work using an X-ray laser.

The institute's main mission is to study the functions of and interactions between biomolecules in their biological context, using computational tools.

When a rotating magnetic field is applied to a spider web - shaped magnetic pattern, it can attract biomolecules labeled with superparamagnetic particles faster to the sensor.

He runs one of the world's premier facilities for studying ancient DNA — Oxford University's Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre — and his publishing schedule verges on maniacal.

The mission of the HFSP is to promote, through international cooperation, basic research focused on the elucidation of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms of living organisms at all levels of complexity: from individual biomolecules up to interactions between organisms.

«Unlike methods currently available, the technique helps us observe the behaviour of single biomolecules without large - label particles or damaging light intensities.»

So if you want to see how biomolecules interact with each other in living cells, you need to work with visible light.

The researchers applied technology and methodology from metabolomics, a relatively new field used principally in medical research to identify small biomolecules produced in metabolism that might serve as early warning signs of disease.

In particular, this is a problem with many biomolecules.

They can be coated with a layer containing proteins or other molecules designed to latch onto specific biomolecules within the body.

Before the sample can be tested however, doctors need to insert specific disease - detecting biomolecules into the microfluidic platform.

Scientists studying plant biochemistry at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered new details about biomolecules that put the brakes on oil production.

The procedure is suitable for making biomolecule conformational changes visible in the cell.

An impermeable shield of endothelial cells that protects our brains from toxins and other threats that may lurk in circulating blood, the barrier can also exclude therapeutic drugs and, at times, essential biomolecules required for healthy brain development.

Henderson's glucose solution wouldn't work for most biomolecules.

Coupling SRS with alkyne tags has been reported earlier by the same group as a general strategy for imaging small biomolecules.

More intriguing evidence, McKay added, would be a set of complex biomolecules like proteins and DNA that don't resemble anything on Earth life but are too complex to have arisen abiotically.

A more generalized version of the technique, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), also offers enormous benefits, enabling scientists to characterize the chemical compositions of materials as well as the structures of proteins and other important biomolecules without having to penetrate the objects under study physically.

The technique, described in today's issue of Nature, could allow researchers to better understand how complex biomolecules such as enzymes carry out reactions essential for life.

Now researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a process to extract valuable biomolecules from this offal which could be used as antioxidants, prebiotics and even food packaging material.

Generous support from the Glaucoma Research Foundation allowed us to develop a strategy to comprehensively assess an entire class of biomolecules called lipids for differences that occur during optic nerve regeneration.

A single reading of charge alone gives a misleading result, but looking at the complementary parameters together allows for more accurate biomolecule detection.

An important part of the TRT method involves computer simulations used to predict the interactions of LEEs with biological matter and the amount of radiation absorbed by the targeted biomolecules or cells.

He has more than 12 years experience in directed evolution and engineering of nucleic acid and protein biomolecules.

This approach enables swift and sensitive detection of this critical biomolecule at microscale concentration levels.

In the body, cells are awash in a wide range of biomolecules including paracrine factors, which are small proteins that can interact with the surface of nanoparticles.

Cellulose, a linear polymer of glucose residues, is the main component of plant cell walls and the most abundant biomolecule on the planet.

As cancer cells grow and become increasingly dysfunctional, the network of biomolecules surrounding them are deposited more and begin cross-linking more, leading to a thicker, stiffer matrix.

Clarity came after she heard a talk by David Tirrell, a Caltech engineer who designed synthetic biomolecules.

Researchers have experimented with sharp - tipped nanoparticles stuck on surfaces to deliver biomolecules to cells, but it is difficult to remove the modified cells from the nanoparticle - coated surface for further study.

A patent is pending for the method, which is particularly suitable for measuring rough surfaces, for example those of semiconductor structures for electronic devices or folded biomolecules.