Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel ...

Scientists have managed to image delicate biological structures without damaging them. Their new technique generates high resolution X-ray images of dried biological material that has not been frozen, ...

A new way of imaging frozen biological samples using electron microscopy is providing new glimpses into the nanoscopic world of cells. Images reveal bent in-vitro tubulin microtubules next to and in a ...

When Aled Edwards launched the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) in 2003, he saw a chance to take on the biological unknown. With the Human Genome Project wrapping up, researchers had identified ...

Structural biology studies the 3D-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, as a tool to decipher their function and mechanisms of action. You may be ...

A team of researchers has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called soTILT3D for ...

Multicolored 3D rendering of a muscle fiber. It looks a bit like a bundle of yarn, with lots of short, aligned strands. A 3D rendering of the proteins in a muscle fiber, captured by cryo-electron ...

The US military is brainstorming ways to build large structures in space, from telescope antennas to elevator tethers. By growing these objects in microgravity using biological organisms, they hope to ...