Not only did he excel in academic work, winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his advancement
of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, but Wüthrich was also an avid sportsman.
Nuclear spin hyperpolarization (DNP) is a key emerging method for increasing the sensitivity
of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
In the past decades, dynamical nuclear polarization (DNP) has been utilized to get orders of magnitude enhancements
of nuclear magnetic resonance signals.
Kalodimos will also oversee a major expansion
of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance resource at St. Jude, including one of the most powerful magnets in the world, which will be used to enhance the study of biological samples.
There are also applications of our method in traditional fields
of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron - nuclear double resonance (ENDOR), for example, in analysis of chemical shifts and materials.
In 1 sentence: PNNL scientists removed a limitation
of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to enable studies never before possible under the extreme conditions found in nature.
The technology brings together the power
of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which yields a remarkable peek into molecular interactions, and the ability to re-create the extreme conditions found on the tundra, in the deep ocean, or underground — conditions relevant to some of the biggest questions that scientists at DOE laboratories such as PNNL ask.
Alain Destexhe, Research Director of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon, Head
of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder, Head of Department of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie, Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin, Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director of the Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer, Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz, Head of Regenerative Therapy Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor of Neural Systems, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France
Having grown to know the analytical technique
of nuclear magnetic resonance as NMR, I was intrigued to discover that in medical imaging it now goes under the name of MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance imaging.
This was made possible by a combination
of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), two procedures that make it possible to characterise the structural configuration of a protein at atomic resolution.
Not exact matches
When the team examined the resulting products with solid state
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and other tools, they found that between 70 % and 99 %
of the starting compounds had transformed into the final products.
Although students at this level learn the basics
of techniques such as
nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy in school, «they don't have the advantage
of using instruments,» Hewson points out.
In each case, binding leads to a characteristic proton
nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) for the dihydrogen that appears in a spectral window in the range delta = 0 to -20 parts per million, and as well to characteristic values
of the coupling JHD and
of the relaxation time T1.
After fixing the molecular engine to the car's chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the engine was running by using
nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the position
of the hydrogen atoms within it.
An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda
of Kyoto University and Koji Usami
of the University
of Tokyo has developed a new method
of light detection for
nuclear magnetic resonance — NMR — by up - converting NMR radio - frequency signals into optical signals.
To map the minute landscape
of molecules, at scales as tiny as just tenths
of a nanometer, and help decipher their functions, structural biologists have long relied on two tools:
nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.
In addition to tapping $ 1.5 billion in core facilities that include the first supercomputer in the region, an industrial - class a nofabrication lab, a top - rated visualization center, and a dozen state -
of - the - art
nuclear magnetic resonance machines, faculty members will get from $ 400,000 to $ 800,000 apiece per year for 5 years to outfit and staff their labs.
Using a technique called
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations
of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains
of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.
Verified by nanoscale
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements, these results mark a clear path towards atomic level design
of quantum sensors with larger surface areas than typically achievable.
Why the drug combination works in resistant CML Why such a combination
of the two inhibitor types works in an animal model has now been explained by Prof. Stephan Grzesiek's team at the Biozentrum
of the University
of Basel and Dr. Wolfgang Jahnke from Novartis, by a structural analysis using
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).
The researchers then used an array
of analytical tools — including stool and urine analysis, flow cytometry, light microscopy,
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and 16S rRNA analysis — to observe the wide - ranging effects
of this sequential co-infection.
My particular field
of expertise (or more correctly, least incompetence) was investigating interactions
of the lithium ion with erythrocytes using
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
«I was attracted to the applied nature
of his research on cationic peptides as pharmaceutical agents, so I contacted Bob through e-mail and told him [
of] my interest in
nuclear magnetic resonance and his research.»
«Using advanced
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we were able to provide an unprecedented view
of the internal structure
of the protein clumps that form in the disease, which we hope will one day lead to new therapies.»
When Cegelski and her colleagues used a technique called
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to analyze the biofilm around samples
of E. coli, the researchers got a surprise.
Using
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, two teams working with the Göttingen - based scientists Markus Zweckstetter and Stefan Becker have now shown the complex three - dimensional structure
of the protein «at work» in atomic detail.
To get a handle on the gymnastics, structural biologist Dorothee Kern
of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, used
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to measure the movement
of individual atoms
of NtrC.
In developing this idea, the team clarified the distribution
of protons and oxygen vacancies in Sc - doped BaZrO3 by combining
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis.
By using a
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique, the distribution
of proton and oxygen vacancy in Sc - doped BaZrO3 was clarified.
We used Fourier - transform ion cyclotron
resonance mass spectrometry and
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to show that a sulfilimine bond -LRB-- S = N --RRB- crosslinks hydroxylysine - 211 and methionine - 93
of adjoining protomers, a bond not previously found in biomolecules.
In order to detect the individual motions
of proteins, the scientists used a spectroscopic technique called
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which exploits the
magnetic properties
of certain atoms like hydrogen and carbon.
A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range
of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 annual meeting
of the Society
of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
Unfortunately, nature is not always willing to easily part with its secrets, forcing scientists to rely on sophisticated imaging technology —
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy or mass spectrometry, for example — to decipher the molecular formula
of newly discovered organic compounds so they can be replicated in the lab.
With the help
of the electrons
of the resulting nitrogen vacancy center, even smallest
magnetic fields can be detected with a resolution
of a few nanometers thanks to
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
LiWang's structural biology lab uses
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the parent technology for MRI, to study the protein structure and dynamics
of biological molecules and then uses the structures to gain insights into their function.
Using a variety
of methods, including
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, calorimetry and electron microscopy, the researchers evaluated the fibers» structural and mechanical characteristics.
He used infrared spectroscopy to verify the presence
of water on precursor lead - oleates, and
nuclear magnetic resonance to show that the lead oleate acted as a drying agent, grabbing water out
of the solvent.
Researchers from NIST and three other institutions developed the new chip, which might be used to reduce the size and cost
of some instruments that, like MRI, rely on
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
The research team consisting
of researchers at NIMS, RIKEN, Kobe Steel and JEOL
RESONANCE (a consolidated subsidiary company of JEOL) successfully developed the NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) system equipped with world's highest magnetic field, 1,020 MHz, during engagement in the JST - SENTAN program «Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysi
RESONANCE (a consolidated subsidiary company
of JEOL) successfully developed the NMR (
nuclear magnetic resonance) system equipped with world's highest magnetic field, 1,020 MHz, during engagement in the JST - SENTAN program «Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysi
resonance) system equipped with world's highest
magnetic field, 1,020 MHz, during engagement in the JST - SENTAN program «Development
of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis.»
Conventional technology such as mass spectrometry and
nuclear magnetic resonance can measure such components — that is how biochemists test the toxicity
of drugs or environmental pollutants on human cells.
In a next step, the stability changes
of the chemically modified insulin were directly probed by using crystallographic and
nuclear magnetic resonance experiments which confirmed the computations.
Later, I returned to UZH to pursue a Ph.D. in the lab
of Oliver Zerbe, applying
nuclear magnetic resonance to the study
of membrane proteins.
Unusually for such a project, the TSRI chemists analyzed the 3D atomic structure
of their template compound using X-ray crystallography as well as
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Wüthrich found a way to determine the precise shape
of a very large biomolecule by studying how its hydrogen nuclei wobble when exposed to carefully tuned
magnetic fields — a phenomenon known as
nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR.
Kurt Wüthrich
of the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology receives the other half for developing
nuclear magnetic resonance techniques that can reveal the precise shape
of the highly convoluted molecular beasts.
A portable version
of a room - size
nuclear magnetic resonance machine can probe the chemistry and structure
of objects ranging from mummies to tires
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.
Researchers with the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University
of California (UC) Berkeley have demonstrated that diamonds may hold the key to the future for
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies
A
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structure determination is reported for the polypeptide chain
of a globular protein in strongly denaturing solution.
Now a team has found a way to double the size
of a protein that a common technique, called
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), can decipher.