Tag Archives: Microscopy

[ad_1] Seeing what the hell is going on inside of us is useful for many aspects of modern medicine. But how to do this without cutting and cutting barriers such as flesh and bone to observe intact living tissue, such as our brains, is a difficult thing to do. Thick, …

[ad_1] A new study by scientists from the University of Southampton has made a breakthrough that could help research treatments for age-related vision loss. With an aging society, conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are becoming more prevalent, affecting around 300 new patients every week in the UK. AMD …

[ad_1] New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what the textbooks say, has remained elusive to scientists until now – precisely as the copy of genetic material that, once initiated, is properly deactivated. The discovery concerns a key process essential to life: the transcription stage of …

[ad_1] Scientists from EPFL and the Friedrich Miescher Institute used cryo-electron microscopy to explain how a DNA-sensitive biomolecule that is key to our innate immune response is inactivated when it comes into contact with the cell’s DNA. One biomolecule that has garnered considerable attention in recent years is cGAS, a …

[ad_1] Electron microscope image of a densely packed droplet of hydrogen-producing algal cells. Scale bar, 10 micrometers. Prof Xin Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology Scientists have built tiny droplet-based microbial factories that produce hydrogen, instead of oxygen, when exposed to daylight in the air. The results of the international research …

[ad_1] In a recent medRxiv * preprint paper, the researchers of the Health Center of the University of Connecticut in the United States reveal their method CRISPR (WS-CRISPR) with digital hot start for rigorous quantitative and sensitive detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV -2) in clinical samples …

[ad_1] Fluorescent confocal microscope images of 8 day old Arabidopsis thaliana roots. Purple color shows cell walls and green color shows CRWN1-3 in immature leaf (top, cotyledon epidermis), mature root area (middle, differential), and actively growing root ends (bottom, meristematic zone) . © Yuki Sakamoto, CC BY Researchers from the …

[ad_1] DURHAM, NC – The bacterium that causes tularemia, the tick-borne disease, is a lean and mean infecting machine. It carries a relatively small genome and a unique set of infectious tools, including a collection of chromosomal genes called the “island of pathogenicity”. A team of researchers from Duke University, …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 The ability to “see” the inner workings of structures (organelles) within cells in real time offers the promise of advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The dynamics of organelles drive the self-efficient micro-world of cells, but current super-resolution microscopy techniques …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 Successful drug development has a significant impact on the quality of life of people around the world. Being able to monitor how molecules enter target cells and observe what they do when they are inside is key to identifying the best candidates. …