CSHL Story archive for Tag: structural biology

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Cryo-EM illuminates intricate designs of noroviruses

June 11, 2019

Researchers reconstruct four different strains of the food-poisoning causing norovirus using the groundbreaking cryo-electron microscope.

Norovirus structures could help develop treatments for food poisoning

June 11, 2019

Researchers at CSHL used cryo-EM to reconstruct the structures of four different strains of human noroviruses, which cause food poisoning.

How key brain receptor works in hostile conditions

May 9, 2018

A structural variation enables a key brain receptor to function in a hostile environment

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

April 27, 2018

A relatively small neuroscience group at CSHL is having an outsized impact on a dynamic and highly competitive field

Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor honored with Mildred Cohn Award from ASBMB

February 2, 2018

Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor receives the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2018 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry.

45 years later, a scientist realizes he’s a star

January 24, 2018

David Haas was stunned to learn the impact of work he abandoned decades ago. He took a CSHL course to see it for himself.

Freeze-frames of enzymes in action have implications for a new cancer treatment concept

July 3, 2017

TUTase enzymes interact with let-7, a regulator of development; targeting them could help control certain cancers.

CSHL’s Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor is elected to The National Academy of Sciences

May 2, 2017

Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor has been elected to The National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

CSHL’s Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 14, 2017

Professor Leemor Joshua-Tor is among 228 newly elected members of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Protein complex that takes first steps in human DNA replication dance is captured at high atomic resolution

March 16, 2017

Human ORC complex captured in action in x-ray crystallography and cryo-EM

Science Shorts: Molecular photography

July 19, 2013

Jonathan Ipsaro, Ph.D. delves furthers into the subjects of fluorescence microscopy imaging and molecular photography.

Human Argonaute proteins: To slice or not to slice?

June 6, 2013

Human Argonautes (hAgo), are key proteins involved in a process known as RNA interference

To celebrate 40th anniversary, the Protein Data Bank returns to its birthplace

November 10, 2011

CSHL hosts a special symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank.

CSHL structural biologists reveal molecular architecture of key NMDA receptor subunit

April 26, 2011

Structure of GluN2D subunit when docked with certain neurotransmitters helps explain the receptor's slow deactivation.