Professor of Chemistry, Lutz Ackermann from Göttingen University has received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC will fund his project Electrochemical Bond Functionalization (ElectroFun) for five years with an award of around 2.5 million euros.
The dynamics of the neural activity of a mouse brain behave in a peculiar, unexpected way that can be theoretically modeled without any fine tuning, suggests a new paper by physicists at Emory University. Physical Review Letters published the research, which adds to the evidence that theoretical physics frameworks may aid in the understanding of large-scale brain activity.
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IMAGE: Cross-sectional images (shown in different colors) of a spider web were combined into this 3D image and translated into music. view more
Credit: Isabelle Su and Markus Buehler
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2021 Spiders are master builders, expertly weaving strands of silk into intricate 3D webs that serve as the spider s home and hunting ground. If humans could enter the spider s world, they could learn about web construction, arachnid behavior and more. Today, scientists report that they have translated the structure of a web into music, which could have applications ranging from better 3D printers to cross-species communication and otherworldly musical compositions.
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IMAGE: Petra Fromme is the director of the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery at ASU as well as a Regents Professor of Biochemistry with the School of Molecular Sciences in. view more
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
Arizona State University researcher Petra Fromme has received the 2021 Christian B. Anfinsen Award. The honor is bestowed by The Protein Society, the premier international association dedicated to supporting protein research.
In presenting Fromme with this prestigious prize, the Protein Society recognizes her groundbreaking efforts to advance the field of protein research, using ultra-high-speed X-ray crystallography to probe matter at the tiniest scales and shortest time durations.
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IMAGE: Using EMBL Hamburg s world-class beamline P12 at DESY s PETRA III synchrotron, researchers directed powerful X-ray beams at artificial proteins called coiled-coil origami proteins. view more
Credit: Credit: Fabio Lapenta / National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Origami may sound more like art than science, but a complex folding pathway that proteins use to determine their shape has been harnessed by molecular biologists, enabling them to build some of the most complex synthetic protein nanostructures to date.
Using EMBL Hamburg s world-class beamline P12 at DESY s PETRA III synchrotron, a team of Slovenian researchers, in collaboration with EMBL s Svergun group, directed powerful X-ray beams at artificial proteins called coiled-coil origami. The proteins were designed to fold into a particular shape based on short modules that interact in pairs. By determining their molecular structure at the EMBL beamline, the researchers confirmed that the