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India Today
February 24, 2018
The research team at IIT lead by Dr Pravindra Kumar from Department of Biotechnology used the state of the art technique of X-ray crystallography to look deep into the bacterial metabolic pathways. It unravelled the molecular basis of bacterial inhibition caused by the compound.
Penn State News
February 24, 2018
The ppGpp molecule interacts with E. coli's RNA polymerase — the cellular machine that produces RNA from genomic DNA — but precisely how this interaction controls gene expression remains a mystery. The new X-ray crystal structures, however, provide clues to this process by showing for the first timeÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 23, 2018
The ppGpp molecule interacts with E. coli's RNA polymerase -- the cellular machine that produces RNA from genomic DNA -- but precisely how this interaction controls gene expression remains a mystery. The new X-ray crystal structures, however, provide clues to this process by showing for the first timeÃÂ ...
Chemical & Engineering News
February 22, 2018
The researchers squeezed crystals of copper(I) m-carborane-9-thiolate (Cu-S-M9) in a diamond anvil cell. At 12 gigapascals of pressure, a copper-sulfur bond broke and copper(I) got reduced to copper(0), according to measurements with transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-rayÃÂ ...
Inland Empire
February 16, 2018
Pomona, CA – Cal Poly Pomona has added a new Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) to its scientific equipment to expand the width of faculty research on campus and to give students experience with high quality research equipment. The XRD, the D8 Venture model made by Bruker, is one of theÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 8, 2018
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have followed the growth of tiny wires of gallium arsenide live. Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the evolving shape and crystal structure of the crystalline nanowires. The findings also provide new approaches toÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 6, 2018
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into cylindrical nanopores and heated, their molecules form ordered rings as they cool -- a condition that otherwise does not naturally occur in the material.
Phys.Org
December 8, 2017
"The X-ray pulses excite the electrons," explains first author Tavella. "If just about 1.5 per cent of the electrons are excited, the crystal already starts to change its internal organisation, flipping to the graphite state." The observations not only settle the question on how diamond graphitizes when excited withÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
December 8, 2017
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Phys.Org
December 8, 2017
For this technique, a crystal has to be grown from the protein first. Researchers then take X-ray snapshots from all sides of the crystal that has to be cooled to ultra-low temperatures to reduce damage from the intense radiation. The X-rays produce a characteristic diffraction pattern from which the innerÃÂ ...
R & D Magazine
December 7, 2017
Scientists at DESY have developed novel lenses that enable X-ray microscopy with record resolution in the nanometre regime. Using new ... This high efficiency is achieved with the layered structures that make up the lens and which act like an artificial crystal to diffract X-rays in a controlled way. The highÃÂ ...
Science Daily
December 2, 2017
They determine important data about line-shaped defects that largely influence the deformation behavior of crystals. These so-called dislocations impede the production of computer chips. As reported in Physical Review Letters, the scientists combine two X-ray methods with a special type of lightÃÂ ...
Science Trends
November 24, 2017
The X-rays carries an invaluable source of information when applied to the chemical systems. Various X-ray based techniques are used nowadays in chemistry, for e.g. X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (Single crystal and powder) etc. The technique of X-ray diffraction is widely pursued byÃÂ ...
Science Daily
November 21, 2017
Using X-ray beams and lasers, researchers studied how a new promising class of solar cell materials, called hybrid perovskites, behaves at the nanoscale level during operation. Their experiments revealed that when voltage is applied, ions migrate within the material, creating regions that are no longer asÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
November 15, 2017
In addition to the PIC-mapping study, which used a tool known as a photoemission electron microscope (PEEM) at the ALS, separate ALS experiments used a 3-D imaging technology known as X-ray microtomography and another X-ray method known as microdiffraction to further analyze the crystalÃÂ ...
Science Daily
November 15, 2017
An X-ray-based technique known as PIC mapping shows the size and orientation of fibers at the back (left), the middle (center), and the tip (right) of the enameloid layer of a parrotfish's biting tooth. The orientation angle of the crystals is color-coded (chart at bottom). The imaging technique revealed a chainÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
October 27, 2017
Using X-ray crystallography, the researchers uncovered the 3-D molecular structure of the Ds-Px base pair during DNA replication by analyzing ...
Chemical & Engineering News
October 27, 2017
Karle, who worked as chief scientist in the X-ray Diffraction Section at the ... the crystallographic community was skeptical about its usefulness ...
Labiotech.eu (blog)
October 26, 2017
Today, the most common structures in drug discovery have been derived using X-ray crystallography, a technique that usually provides a single ...
Prince George Citizen
October 26, 2017
It involves diffracting X-rays off planes of electron density and using the ... But X-ray diffraction crystallography is the best way we have to image ...
Newsweek
October 18, 2017
The X-rays were then passed through a crystal that converted them into ... computing technologies, and the challenges of applying X-ray to a ...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
October 12, 2017
... Nanoscale Virus Features from Correlations of Scattered X-rays ... high-resolution molecular structure has been X-ray crystallography, where ...
physicsworld.com
October 5, 2017
The X-ray crystallography of molecules involves exposing a lattice of regularly spaced molecules to a beam of X-rays. Interference of the ...
nanotechweb.org
December 31, 1999
They used the meso-crystallization technique to obtain crystalline samples of the proteins by growing them in a “cubic lipid mesophase” – a medium that allows the protein to move freely without leaving the membrane. They then irradiated the crystals with X-rays with a wavelength of about 1 angstrom,ÃÂ ...
Chaffey Breeze
March 9, 2017
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Laboratory Equipment
March 9, 2017
Here is an image of the X-ray crystal structure of the Axl/Gas6 complex where Gas6 domains are green and Axl domains are magenta.
News-Medical.net
March 9, 2017
The purified and crystallized proteins can be analyzed with X-ray crystallography or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This allows the structure of every protein encoded by the genome to be determined.
Medgadget (blog)
March 9, 2017
X-ray Diffractometer (XRD) is a laboratory-based technique commonly used for identification of crystalline materials and analysis of unit cell dimensions.
Science Daily
March 7, 2017
"The virus only encodes three proteins, so we knew this one must be important," said Tao, whose lab analyzes the structure and function of molecules through X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy. "By studying Orsay's replication cycle, we ...
Yakima Herald-Republic
March 7, 2017
Bernard Swaim, 60, talks to defense attorney Nick Yedinak in his first court appearance Monday. He's charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Stephen E. Smith of Cashmere, in a cold case dating back 35 years.
Imperial College London
March 7, 2017
Scientists from Imperial College London have revealed how materials such as gold can help create protein crystals. The team, from the Department of Surgery and Cancer, hope their findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, could aid the ...
Phys.Org
March 7, 2017
MIPT scientists found a way to transfer membrane proteins embedded in nanodiscs directly to the lipid-based crystallization matrix and grow membrane protein crystals suitable for high resolution X-ray diffraction studies. In the newly proposed approach ...
Smithsonian
March 7, 2017
But Watson and Crick weren't working in a vacuum, as Howard Markel writes for Scientific American. Just 50 miles away, he writes, scientists at King's College, London were studying DNA as well, using X-ray crystallography. "One of them, Rosalind ...
The Institute of Cancer Research (blog)
March 7, 2017
For protein X-ray crystallography, we make a crystal of our protein of interest - many millions of copies of the protein, all slotting together in a highly ordered way.
Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
March 7, 2017
To this end, I gave a talk at the UK's National Portrait Gallery (NPG) earlier this month (ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March), discussing the lives and work of the five female structural biologists in the NPG collection - all X-ray ...
Medgadget (blog)
March 7, 2017
The X-Ray Crystallography Market report provides in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macro-economic indicators and governing factors along with market attractiveness as per segments.
UDaily
March 6, 2017
Then she sent X-rays through that crystal to begin uncovering the ribosome's structure, pinpointing the locations of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that compose it.
Medical News Today
March 6, 2017
John T. Randall's Biophysics Unit at King's College London, where she used X-ray crystallography to investigate the structure of DNA.
R & D Magazine
March 2, 2017
The Compact Dynamic Beamstop (CDBS), which won an R&D 100 Award in 2016, allows scientists to extract the maximum possible amount of data from each precious protein crystal by carefully monitoring and optimizing the X-ray dose. It is a breakthroughÃÂ ...
MyAJC
February 28, 2017
Lee Wachtstetter, a Floridian honoring her husband's dying wish that she continue cruising after he died in 1997, has lived ever since aboard Crystal Cruises' Crystal Serenity luxury cruise ship. .... While ships typically have excellent medical ...
Firstpost
February 28, 2017
... His experimental and theoretical studies on the diffraction of light by acoustic waves of ultrasonic and hypersonic frequencies (published 1934-1942), and those on the effects produced by X-rays on infrared vibrations in crystals exposed to ...
Controlled Environments Magazine
February 28, 2017
In 2015, his lab used X-ray crystallography to establish the structure of an Au133 nanoparticle and found that it contained complex, self-organized patterns that mirrored patterns found in nature.
Yale Daily News (blog)
February 28, 2017
The researchers managed to characterize the protein using x-ray crystallography, a method that allowed them to determine how the structure of the protein's lipid transfer fold came to be.
Market Exclusive
February 28, 2017
The Company focuses on the treatment of rare diseases. The Company uses X-ray crystallography, computer modeling of molecular structures and chemistry techniques to focus on the three-dimensional molecular structure and active site characteristics ofÃÂ ...
The Drum
February 28, 2017
Their groundbreaking research focuses on the use of X-ray radiation in fields as varied as protein crystallography, earth science, paleontology, chemistry and physics.
Medgadget (blog)
February 28, 2017
X-Ray Crystallography is the study of crystal structures, when an X-ray beam bombards them. The diffraction pattern is created by the X-ray diffraction technique, produces wavelengths, which are in the same order of magnitude and interatomic distances.
Stanford University News
February 27, 2017
... an X-ray free-electron laser then intersects with a droplet that contains protein crystals. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory).
The Scientist
February 27, 2017
"Cryo-TEM has great potential in drug discovery applications; it is highly complementary to traditional methods, such as x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance," said Denis Zeyer, CEO, NovAliX. "For small molecules research, cryo-TEMÃÂ ...
CMU The Tartan Online
February 26, 2017
... led by graduate student Chenjie Zeng, established the structure of Au246, one of the largest and most complex nanoparticles created by scientists to date and the largest gold nanoparticle to have its structure determined by X-ray crystallography.
WUWM
February 24, 2017
In the case of DNA, it was X-ray crystallography, Mendelian genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology. All of those things kind of fused together into an exotic cocktail that led to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
