Anti-Body Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles
Philip Shlenoff, recent high school graduate, gives a presentation of his work and opportunity at the Florida State University Dept. of Chemistry. Under the supervision of Zaki Estephan, Philip has actively participated in research that targets canc....
More details | Watch nowAquaporin Water Channels _ From Atomic Structure to Malaria
Aquaporin (AQP) water channel proteins enable high water permeability in certain biological membranes. Discovered in human red cells but expressed in multiple tissues, AQP1 has been thoroughly characterized and its atomic structure is known. Expres....
More details | Watch nowAquaporin Water Channels – From Atomic Structure to Malaria
Aquaporin channels allow water to rapidly cross cell membranes in all living organisms. AQP1 confers red cells and proximal renal tubules with high water permeability. Present in renal collecting duct, AQP2 is regulated by vasopressin, and human muta....
More details | Watch nowAquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine
Peter Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.” Here he gives a lecture in Russia as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative
More details | Watch nowAquaporin Water Channels: From Atomic Structure to Malaria
Aquaporin (AQP) water channel proteins enable high water permeability of certain biological membranes. Discovered in human red cells but expressed in multiple tissues, AQP1 has been thoroughly characterized and its atomic structure is known. Expr....
More details | Watch nowBasic Science and Co-entrepreneurship, my Experience
The design and development of inhibiting (or occasionally activating) ligands of target proteins in medicine and crop protection guided by molecular structures and functions has become an established technology in academia and industry recently._ Dr....
More details | Watch nowBioscience and Nanotechnology – peptide assemblies
Toyo University Bio-Nanotechnology Symposium Lectures; Dr Woolfson talks on the self-assembly of peptides.
More details | Watch nowBuilding and Breeding Molecules to Spy on Cells, Tumors, and Organisms
Molecules to observe and manipulate biological systems can be devised by a variety of strategies, ranging from pure chemical design and total synthesis to genome mining and high-throughput directed evolution. Examples of both successes and failures ....
More details | Watch nowChemi- and bio-luminescence
Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence. General chemistry explained and examples such as fireflies, Wintergreen mints, etc. are introduced
More details | Watch nowChemistry of Bioluminescence
There are numerous kinds of luminous organism on earth. Mysterious emission of light from them inspired the curiosity of mankind ever since the ancient times. In history, Raphael Dubois discovered luciferin and luciferase from one of them, a click ....
More details | Watch nowConformational Plasticity of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) studied by NMR in Solution
As an introduction, some principles of nuclear spin physics applying to studies of integral membrane proteins (IMP) will be reviewed. Applications of resulting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques will then be illustrated with studies of G-p....
More details | Watch nowCuriosity and its Fruits: From Basic Science to Advanced Medicine
Ribosomes, the universal cellular machines that translate the genetic code into proteins, are targeted by many antibiotics that paralyze them by binding to their functional sites. Antibiotics binding modes, inhibitory actions and synergism pathways....
More details | Watch now