On the biphoton wavelength
A report on an experiment showing that the wavelength of a biphoton is clearly dependent onthe measurement scheme and on the way it is defined

Protein–DNA binding specificity predictions with structural models
A simple physical energy function, which uses electrostatics, solvation, hydrogen bonds and atom-packing terms to model direct readout and sequence-specific DNA conformational energy to model indirect readout of DNA sequence by the bound protein

Electrostatics of nanosystems: Application to microtubules and the ribosome
The application of numerical methods to enable the trivially parallel solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation for supramolecular structures that are orders of magnitude larger in size.

Nanoscale microscope sheds first light on gene repair
Proteins called H2AX act as "first aid" to DNA, among other roles.

New Images Reveal The Workings Of Cellular Protein Factories
The workings of a tiny molecular machine crucial to all forms of life are emerging from highly detailed new images obtained by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Landmark Progress In Understanding Ribosome Structure-- Research Done At Brookhaven Lab's Light Source
Two reports in the August 26 issue of the scientific journal Nature describe landmark progress in understanding the structure of the ribosome.

Scientists Call For Global Push To Advance Research In Synthetic Biology
Leading scientists issued a statement today announcing that there is a new scientific field on the brink of revolutionizing our approach to problems ranging from eco-safe energy to outbreaks of malaria.

Yale Researchers Solve Structure Of The Ribosome
In a landmark achievement, Yale researchers have determined the atomic structure of the ribosome's large subunit

Magnetic computer sensors may help study biomolecules
Magnetic switches like those in computers also might be used to manipulate individual strands of DNA for high-speed applications such as gene sequencing

Yale scientists 'see' basis of antibiotic resistance
Using X-ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have "seen" the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs

UT Southwestern researchers define regions of human genes highly prone to mutation
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have taken the first step in defining the sites in human genes most prone to mutation

Aquaporins - the perfect water filters of the cell
Water regulation plays a crucial role in the human body

A cell-based screen for function of the four-helix bundle protein Rop: a new tool for combinatorial experiments in biophysics
The authors report a novel, robust, cell-based screen for function of the four-helix bundle protein, Rop.

BCM, Rice make major advance in structural biology
Noted expert: advance one of the field's most significant in two decades

Protein folding: Building a strong foundation
Study finds most stable parts of protein are the first to fold

Molecular motor implicated in tissue remodeling
A well-known enzyme present in the skin and other tissues turns out to be a molecule-sized motor that extracts its fuel from the road it runs on, according to researchers

Yale researchers find all of the gene targets for a protein
Using new DNA chip technology, Yale researchers have identified virtually all of the gene targets of some key proteins, known as transcription factors.

Yale scientists visualize molecular detail of RNA splicing complex
Scientists in the department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale revealed the crystal structure of the first described enzymatic RNA - what it looks like and how it reacts

Structure and Composition of the Fusion Pore
The fusion pore or porosome was shown to be a cup-shaped lipoprotein structure, the base of which has t-SNAREs and allows for docking and release of secretory products from membrane-bound vesicles.

Breakthrough: Scientists Create 3-D Map Of Cell Membrane Ion Pump At Near Atomic Resolution
Scientists have succeeded in mapping the structure of an ion pump in cells' plasma membrane - the "bag" that holds human and animal cells together and separates them from neighboring cells.