A new method for manipulating macromolecules has been developed by researchers. The technique uses double-stranded DNA to direct the behavior of other molecules. A new method for manipulating ...

The ability to purify macromolecular machines in an intact, stable manner is imperative to mechanistically interrogate their function within cells and to elucidate three-dimensional (3D) structures.

Single crystal X-ray diffraction remains the most powerful technique to determine the three-dimensional structure of biologically important macromolecules and their functional ligand complexes at or ...

Researchers will develop new synthesis processes for long-chain molecules in order to characterize and construct them with so far unreached precision. This will result in an innovative leap in a ...

The origins of modern structural biology date back to the 1910s, when the German physicist Max von Laue discovered that biological crystal samples irradiated with X-rays produced diffraction patterns ...

Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of photosynthesis can enable significant progress in the fields of biotechnology and renewable energy. Photosystem II (PSII), a protein ...

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has again acquired a Collaborative Research Center (SFB) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). SFB 1176 "Molekulare Struktu-rierung weicher Materie" ...