Jemma Betts,Chris H Hill,Ian Brierley
Jemma Betts
It is estimated that ~1031 viruses exist on planet earth, and all are entirely dependent on host cell ribosomes for viral mRNA translation. Ribosomes, the engines of protein synthesis, can be regarded as the 'compilers' of life-responsible ...
Katherine Maniates,Andrew Singson
Katherine Maniates
Infertility and development of contraceptive methods have profound societal affects; however, the genetic mechanisms underlying this are still largely unknown. Here, we describe how using the small worm Caenorhabditis elegans has helped us ...
Ram Prosad Chakrabarty,Navdeep S Chandel
Ram Prosad Chakrabarty
Mitochondria, special double-membraned intracellular compartments or 'organelles', are popularly known as the 'powerhouses of the cell', as they generate the bulk of ATP used to fuel cellular biochemical reactions. Mitochondria are also wel...
Emily Zion,Xin Chen
Emily Zion
Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental aspects of life. Most cells within a multicellular organism contain the same genetic information, passed on from one originating cell - the zygote; however, these cells can take on a variety of differe...
Jeffrey Skolnick,Mu Gao
Jeffrey Skolnick
Many of life's molecules including proteins are built from chiral building blocks. What drove homochiral building block selection? Simulations on demi-chiral proteins containing equal numbers of d- and l-amino acids show that they possess m...
Jacob G Smith,Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Jacob G Smith
Life evolved in the presence of alternating periods of light and dark that accompany the daily rotation of the Earth on its axis. This offered an advantage for organisms able to regulate their physiology to anticipate these daily cycles. In...
Ellen Weiss
Ellen Weiss
The retina is famous for its ability to operate under a broad range of light intensities. This is partly due to the presence of two types of photoreceptor cells, rods and cones. Rods are used mostly for dim light vision, and cones are used ...
Marianne Menictas,Mashfiqui Rabbi,Predrag Klasnja et al.
Marianne Menictas et al.
It is likely that you or someone you know is affected by a chronic health condition. For example, a staggering six in 10 adults in the USA are currently suffering from a chronic disease (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and He...
Measuring molecular interactions in solution using multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation: combining spectral analysis with hydrodynamics [0.03%]
使用多波长分析超离心机测量溶液中的分子相互作用：结合光谱分析与流体力学
Borries Demeler
Borries Demeler
In 1926, the Swedish scientist Theodor Svedberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on a disperse system, and for studying the colloidal properties of proteins. This work was, to a large extent, made possible by his invent...
Chemically tailored carbon nanotubes as a new toolbox for biomedicine and beyond [0.03%]
作为生物医学及其他领域新工具箱的化学定制化碳纳米管
Benjamin Barnes,Alexandra Brozena,YuHuang Wang
Benjamin Barnes
Like molecules of DNA, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can display a variety of structures, but all conduct electrons and feature unique optical properties. In this perspective article, we highlight several recent works that bridge these two seemin...