Virtual cell biology
Ever wondered how all the processes inside a living cell work together as one system, in real time? How they all collaborate with each other, affect each other? Well, wonder no more. Researchers from...
View ArticleA new probe may enable researchers to identify drug resistant influenza viruses
Flu has always been a public scare issue, the latest being the “swine flu” (a.k.a H1N1 strain). One of the problems with the influenza virus is that its genome is composed of 7-8 separate pieces of RNA...
View ArticleSingle molecule peptide sequencing
One of the greatest breakthroughs of the past decade was the development of the next generation sequencing. Sequencing of DNA of course. It is relatively easy to sequence DNA – the polymerase is doing...
View ArticleSugar-coated RNA
A new pre-print from Caroline Bertozzi’s lab shows that some RNA molecules are glycosylated. At least some of these glyco-RNA molecules might reside inside the ER lumen. There are four major types of...
View ArticleSuger-coated RNA – on the cell surface
A year and a half ago I wrote about a preprint showing that small RNA molecules are being glycosylated. Now this paper is published in Cell, with some additional data. In particular, the work from...
View ArticleFixation of cells for imaging affects phase separation
An assumption in microscopy and other methods is that chemical fixation of the cells is fast enough not to affect the biological process we study. A new paper shows that fixation affects the appearance...
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