We combined #AlphaFold and #cryoEM to build a new model of the nuclear pore complex, the largest complex in the human cell! The structure covered by the model is 15x bigger than the human ribosome and 2x bigger than old nuclear pore models. 1/7 Read how: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the 2nd SnapShot of the ribosome biogenesis series featuring the 60S ribosomal subunit! This was a great collaboration w Ed Hurt & Roland Beckmann. Read the SnapShot & watch the animation w narration here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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DNA codes for proteins, but proteins can intimately manipulate DNA. Learn more at smart-biology.com #biology #3D #animation #science #EdTech

In our article published today nature , we report complete all-atom structural models of a fully packaged bacteriophage particle. Congratulations to Kush Coshic on his first publication! Many thanks to Chris Maffeo and David Winogradoff for pushing this 6-year project forward.

Multiple packaging simulations produced globally different conformations of the packaged genome, suggesting that the packaging process itself gives mature virions individual traits encoded by the topology of its genome.

That’s right 😎

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Visualisation of π being irrational [📹 Chirag Dudhat / fascinating.fractals]

#FluorescenceFriday #cellbiology #bioart A neutrophilic cell migrating through a 3D collagen mesh at 1.3 sec intervals for 5.5 min, as seen by lattice light sheet microscopy. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

A mosquito symbiont controls flaviviruses #ResearchHighlight nature.com/articles/s4157… In this study, Zhang et al. report that a bacterial symbiont residing in the gut of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes protects them from flavivirus infection.

A candidate novel cannabinoid receptor modeled within a lipid-like membrane bilayer using a trick by Karel Krápník Berka x.com/caco3cz/status… : adding oleic acids (OLA) as ligand 🤯

😅After almost two months, I finally regained access to my original MAoC account. I had already given up on it and created another one.🥲

Virologist Ian Brown said it was a surprise to see highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 crop up in dairy cows in the USA: “It shows us it can get into niches you wouldn’t expect.” This marks another chapter in the evolution of H5N1. #vogelgriep theguardian.com/world/article/…

Researchers have discovered toxic protein particles, shaped like umbrellas, that soil bacteria known as Streptomyces secrete to squelch competitors, especially others of their own species. asbmb.org/asbmb-today/sc…

Ahhh this guys 😩. I just hope this one is a natural evolving virus and not a highly artificially evolved virus that binds and activates in almost all tissues of the human body with high affinity. Coronaviruses are mild compared to influenza viruses and evolve faster!

In most biology classrooms each student can have their own interpretation for how things work especially with systems and processes. Our animated lessons bring those to life exactly the way they happen so everyone is on the same page with understanding. smart-biology.com

And people think we live in a simulation and that we are just AI. There is no point in simulating such complexity, and it gets even more complex once you get inside the cell. Imagine the computational power required to simulate every living thing on the Universe.

death of a single cell

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