Electron tomography is a powerful imaging technique that enables the three-dimensional (3D) visualization and analysis of nanostructures at the atomic scale. By combining advanced electron microscopy ...

Cryo-electron tomography in action Cryo-electron tomography is an imaging technique that takes 2D images of cryogenically frozen samples at multiple tilt angles to reconstruct three-dimensional ...

Cells organize their molecules into distinct functional areas. While textbooks usually refer to membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria and cell nuclei, recent studies have also revealed ...

Research has demonstrated that actin waves propagate via actin polymerization on the substrate-attached cell membrane at the wave’s front and disassembly at the back of the wave. 4 Proteins named Arp2 ...

In a study published in Nature Communication recently, a team led by Prof. BI Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, ...

Biochemist Wolfgang Baumeister, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, has received the 2025 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. The Shaw Prizes have been awarded annually ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, thus the intense interest in a screening test that would allow early identification of coronary artery disease in its ...

Cryo-electron tomography shows what molecules look like in high-resolution – in this case, the virus that causes COVID-19. Nanographics, CC BY-SA All life is made up of cells several magnitudes ...