First experiment with #MDanalysis in #MolecularNodes Does anyone have any advice for cleaning simulations for particles moving too quickly? Some phospholipids are a bit glitchy. NhaA equilibrium dataset from Ian Kenney and Shoji Fan figshare.com/articles/datas… #Blender3D #sciart

Did you know that nuclear pore complexes can turn up outside the nuclear envelope? Studying these, Jenny Sachweh, Bernhard Hampoelz and others uncover that the surrounding cellular milieu determines NPC composition via the nuclear transport system itself. #teamtomo #NPC A 🧵

Issue 20 kick-starts our metabolism review series with JMeiser_lab & FrezzaLab Structure of the type I-F Cas8-HNH system Fitness cost of spurious phosphorylation Resource: i-motif distribution in the human genome Cover: Misha Kudryashev 🔬 ❄🕊️ and colleagues embopress.org/toc/14602075/4…

My babies are on the cover of The EMBO Journal! I couldn't be happier and prouder of this journey alongside with my colleagues and collaborators, which has led to this amazing publication. Enjoy it once again!😌 Misha Kudryashev 🔬 ❄🕊️ Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Each month an #egg is ovulated from the #ovary, starting the journey of reproduction. But how does ovulation occur?🥚 Our latest work in Nature Cell Biology led by Christopher Thomas and Tabea Marx, describes the control of #ovulation using live imaging. bit.ly/3Ya8dEL (1/7)

Transplacental SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF8 binds to complement C1q to trigger fetal inflammation Uninfected fetal tissues exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 cytokine ORF8 through an infected mother have higher rates of inflammation embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled to share our new work bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Our Repli-Histo labeling marks nucleosomes in euchromatin and heterochromatin in live cells. We reveal genome chromatin is essentially replicated from regions with greater nucleosome motions. 1/2

❄️🌈 Now out in Nature Methods: nature.com/articles/s4159… Couldn’t be happier!

Chinese scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong, working with MIT, engineered a new desalination device. It turns seawater into drinkable water at a rate higher than any other device. The system is passive, & solar-powered. A system the size of a small suitcase meets the daily needs of

Find our fresh peer-reviewed report on “Molecular Architecture of Synaptic Vesicles” here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… We analyzed synaptic vesicles in neurons and in isolation to describe molecules on their surface. 🧠💥🔬

DNA during cell death and cell division. #CellBiology #microscopy

… and perfect timing. Work by Huaipeng Xing with Frydman Lab out nature. PDCD5 binds virtually all open #TRiC, while closed TRiC forms clusters inside of cells. Congrats to all authors. rdcu.be/d3dmN

🎄It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas... Under the Microscope!🔬 Why buy Christmas trees when you can "grow" one using micropatterning ( Alvéole ) and Allen Institute 's cells with LaminB1 "ornaments"? Happy #FluorescenceFriday !

The study of KIF4A-mediated human condensin I activation is out! Congrats to Dr. Erin E. Cutts 👩‍🔬, L. Aragon, Damla Tetiker !

Feeling festive? The Smart Biology team reveals our most viewed animations of 2024. Press like if our top 10 picks make your holiday brighter! To start it off at #10, the dinosaur hiding in the rough endoplasmic reticulum. #Biology #3D #Education #Animation🎄🎬

Why are some chromosomes like #21 in Down syndrome more error-prone in mammalian eggs? 🤔 Our new study in Nature Communications reveals why acrocentric chromosomes often mis-segregate, causing aneuploidy and miscarriages. (1/9) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Difference between diffusion and flow? If you drip paint into a river it locally dissolves by diffusion. It goes downstream driven by flow. We quantify flow through #nuclearpores in response to rapid nuclear size changes. Max Planck Institute of Biophysics #TEAMTOMO Molecular Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…