A post here from October 2006 pointed to an article from Prof. Feringa on «Making
molecular machines work».
«Now, we need to apply this to look at larger complexes to understand how these different
molecular machines work,» Subramaniam says.
Not exact matches
The prize will be equally split between biophysicist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology in Cambridge in England, biochemist Thomas Steitz of Yale University and molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life
Molecular Biology in Cambridge in England, biochemist Thomas Steitz of Yale University and
molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life
molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their
work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making
machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life possible.
The structure, obtained by scientists at the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble, France, allows researchers to finally understand how the
machine works as a whole.
Gijs van der Schot, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Cell and
Molecular Biology at Uppsala, will describe the researchers» new approach to imaging during the AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition, held Oct. 18 - 23 in San Jose, Calif. «The X-ray laser we use for our
work, the LCLS, is a fascinating
machine — because of the physical principles behind it and the precise engineering of its parts — that produces very bright and ultra-short pulses,» he said.
These students and faculty
work on a broad spectrum of research problems that share at least one of the four goals of Bio-X: to image and simulate life from molecules to mind, to restore the health of cells and tissues, to decode the genetics of health and disease, and to design therapeutic devices and
molecular machines.
Another of the lab's achievements is its success in explaining how a six - sided protein ring called helicase — essential in all life — attaches to the double helix and
works like a tiny motor, unzipping the two DNA strands as other
molecular machines go about copying one of them.
Our immobilization approach means that biological
molecular machines might be harnessed, and even optimized through high - throughput expression methods, to
work under reaction - favorable, nonbiological conditions,» says Ackerman.
This lecture will illustrate the
working principles of photochemical
molecular devices for information processing, with examples of memories, logic gates, and encoding / decoding systems, and the operational mechanisms of light - powered
molecular machines, with examples of shuttles and switchable boxes.
Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory) is awarded for excellence in theory to the researchers whose recent
work has most advanced the achievement of Feynman's goal for nanotechnology:
molecular manufacturing, defined as the construction of atomically - precise products through the use of
molecular machine systems.
In 2016, one of their former Feynman Prize winners, Sir James Fraser Stoddart, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his
work with
molecular machines.
In addition to his Nobel - winning
work on
molecular machines, Feringa also studies catalysis.
In proposals to develop APM, this problem will be solved by guided
molecular trajectories and positionally - controlled mechanosynthesis: reactive
molecular fragments will be guided by
molecular machine systems to a specific position and geometric orientation with respect to the growing atomically precise
work piece so that the application of mechanical force will cause the desired bond to form.
In 2016, one of our former Feynman Prize winners, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his
work with
molecular machines.
His most recent
work that was featured in this blog includes addressable
molecular machines arranged in a porous crystal (September, 2015) and an artificial
molecular pump (May 2015).