biomolecules

As part of a comparative international study, researchers have successfully tested and validated a method of investigating dynamic protein structures. The precise measurement of biomolecules can play a critical role in improving our…

A research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia have combined two emerging imaging technologies to better view a wide range of biomolecules, including proteins, lipids and DNA, at the nanoscale. Their technique, which brings…

If we compare the right to the left hand, we can see these are specular images -- that is, like symmetrical shapes reflected in a mirror -- and they cannot superimpose on each other. This property is chirality, a feature of the matter that…

It's not easy to be sure that drugs and supplements with twisted -- or chiral -- structures are turning in the correct direction. Now, twirling infrared light can probe both the structures of molecular crystals and their twists, research…

A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of developers, led by Abbas Ourmazd from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Robin Santra from…