Sentences with phrase «resolution electron microscopy»

Join us on October 10th to learn about SPHIRE (SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) from Toshio Moriya, post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology SPHIRE: User - friendly pipeline for near - atomic...
The researchers used a novel combination of methods including synchrotron - based X-ray fluorescence microscopy at ANL's Advanced Photon Source and high - resolution electron microscopy analyses at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) located at PNNL to characterize UO2 - cytochrome interaction.
We analyzed the role of DNM2 and several actin binding proteins on clathrin plaque function at costameres in vitro by using either siRNA depletion combined to high resolution electron microscopy or in vivo by intravital microscopy.
(SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) for cryoEM using statistical resampling to attain quality assessment and result reproducibility.
(SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) for cryoEM using statistical resampling to attain quality assessment and result reproduci... >>
But to reveal synapses — the minute signalling junctions through which electrical or chemical signals flow — nanometer - resolution electron microscopy is required.
He is also a world leader in the development and application of atomic - resolution electron microscopy.
The scientists imaged the crystals with high - resolution electron microscopy and found that the unique environment made the ice crystallize in a new, cubic configuration, they report online today in Nature.
Shim and his research team combined X-ray techniques in the synchrotron radiation facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Labs and atomic resolution electron microscopy at ASU to determine what causes unusual flow patterns in rocks that lie 600 miles and more deep within the Earth.

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Five years ago, using a lower - resolution form of electron microscopy in which the protein is visualized in the presence of negative stain, Whelan's team was able to detect at low resolution a structure that looked like a doughnut with three globular domains.
We determined a 5.8 angstrom — resolution cryo — electron microscopy and single - particle reconstruction of a ribosome stalled during translation of the tnaC leader gene.
«Understanding how the enzyme actually works requires the knowledge of its three dimensional molecular structure at the atomic level,» said Dr. Mueller, principal investigator for the study that used cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to reveal the enzyme at near atomic resolution.
«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.
The traditional methods used in materials science analysis, like high - powered electron microscopy and spectroscopy, do not combine chemical insights with the spatial resolution of IR imaging, the researchers said, so they can only provide average chemical measurements.
Cryo - electron microscopy fires electrons at proteins that have been frozen in solution, providing images of such high resolution that scientists can create models down to the atomic level.
The recent study, which was produced primarily through a research partnership between the University of Arkansas, Missouri State University and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, consisted of high - resolution transmission electron microscopy combined with scanning tunneling microscopy and state - of - the - art computational molecular dynamics.
Through a combination of high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end - binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo - electron microscopy for the high - resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo - electron microscopy that can determine high - resolution structures of biomolecules in solution.
Thanks to cryo - electron microscopy, «we have been able to visualise, for the first time, the high - resolution structure of the human R2TP system,» states Llorca.
This achievement has been made possible by using high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy, a technique brought to the CNIO thanks to Óscar Llorca, director of the Structural Biology Programme and lead author on the paper published in Nature Communications.
They then analyzed the shells with electron microscopy and other high - resolution imaging techniques.
The reported femtosecond time resolution of four - dimensional (4D) electron microscopy represents an advance of 10 orders of magnitude over that of conventional EELS methods.
Sirohi et al. present a near - atomic - resolution structure of mature Zika virus determined by cryo - electron microscopy.
By using thousands of images, they reconstructed a high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy structure of the Zika virus.
We present the 3.8 angstrom resolution structure of mature Zika virus, determined by cryo — electron microscopy (cryo - EM).
A new support for biological specimens improves the resolution that can be achieved by electron microscopy.
High - resolution cryo - electron microscopy has now revealed in unprecedented detail the structural changes in the bacterial ribosome which results in resistance to the antibiotic erythromycin.
The new technique, dubbed photoactivated localization microscopy, currently has a resolution similar to that of electron microscopy.
Electron microscopy and electron diffraction can provide the spatial resolution to image atoms, but filming atomic motions requires ultrashort shutter speeds — the shorter the electron pulses, the sharper the images from the micrElectron microscopy and electron diffraction can provide the spatial resolution to image atoms, but filming atomic motions requires ultrashort shutter speeds — the shorter the electron pulses, the sharper the images from the micrelectron diffraction can provide the spatial resolution to image atoms, but filming atomic motions requires ultrashort shutter speeds — the shorter the electron pulses, the sharper the images from the micrelectron pulses, the sharper the images from the microcosmos.
Idrobo adds that new electron microscopy techniques can complement existing methods, such as x-ray spectroscopy and neutron scattering, that are the gold standard in studying magnetism but are limited in their spatial resolution.
The TSRI laboratories of Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire and Assistant Professor Andrew Ward are studying the structures of these antibodies using techniques called electron microscopy, which creates high - resolution images by hitting samples with electrons, and X-ray crystallography, which determines the atomic structure of crystalline arrays of proteins.
The different types of motion of the plasmons were characterized using a microscopy technique called electron energy - loss spectroscopy (EELS), whose very fine spatial and spectral resolution enabled the researchers to propose a new theoretical model of plasmon behavior.
To determine the structural and chemical composition of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission gun scanning electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.
In studying the functional behavior of the brain, from control of muscles to the formation of memories, scientists are using such tools such as electron microscopy, recordings of electrical signals from individual brain cells, and imaging of brain structures and processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and high - resolution optical imaging.
To help with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin samples prepared with a diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.
Working with John and Johno Parsons (Prophet Gold Mine, Queensland), Professor Gordon Southam (University of Queensland) and Dr Geert Cornelis (formerly of the CSIRO), Dr Reith and postdoctoral researcher Dr Jeremiah Shuster analysed numerous gold grains collected from West Coast Creek using high - resolution electron - microscopy.
To characterize the threads and strips, the researchers combined high - resolution scanning electron microscopy, electron back - scattered diffraction with energy - dispersive electron probe microanalysis and other analytical methods.
The establishment of a facility for high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy will in future give scientists at Jülich the opportunity to investigate biological molecules by this relatively new procedure.
But subtler changes require higher - resolution approaches, such as confocal or electron microscopy.
After more than three years of work, the scientists led by Maier have succeeded in isolating mTORC1 in the quality required for high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy.
Invented by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, CLAIRE extends the incredible resolution of electron microscopy to the dynamic imaging of soft matter.
Korenberg's team is developing a 3D coordinate system to align various types of neuroimaging data in the macaque brain, from whole - brain MRI connectivity to single - cell confocal data and, for some areas, subcellular resolution with electron microscopy.
The researchers used high - resolution scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray analysis to study microstructure and elemental composition, and high - resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for more detailed chemical characterization.
Campbell MG, Veesler D, Cheng A, Potter CS, Carragher B. 2.8 A resolution reconstruction of the Thermoplasma acidophilum 20S proteasome using cryo - electron microscopy.
The mission of the High Resolution Microscopy Facility is to provide scanning and transmission electron microscopy services to researchers.
2017 - Jacques Dubochet receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his work at EMBL developing cryo - electron microscopy for the high - resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
I am an experimentalist, and I use ultrahigh - resolution ion - and electron - microscopy techniques, including focused - ion - beam scanning - electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, to determine the composition and structure of these materials at scales ranging from millimeters down to the atomic.
Norma is used to interpret electron microscopy data using atomic scale resolution structural models and perform flexible fitting on new cases without encountering major technical difficulties.
«Even though there is a revolution going on in cryo - electron microscopy, with resolutions below 5 Å, there will still be a lot of structures that are above that level,» Ohi says.
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