More Than a Snapshot: Proteins in Motion
A single snapshot is often not enough to understand how biological molecules work. Proteins, for example, can change their shape depending on their environment—sometimes ...
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Fascinating Insights into the Cell’s Repair System
The membrane that surrounds cells in living organisms is highly flexible and sensitive. How it protects itself from damage and renews is crucial for ...
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Nuclear Spin Spectroscopy: Unraveling the ‘Chirality’ of Molecules Faster
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) from Helmholtz Information, and Voxalytic GmbH have developed a new method that, for the first time, ...
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Towards an Innovative Interoperable Platform for Electron Microscopy
In the IMPRESS project, researchers from 19 European institutions are aiming to create an interoperable platform that enables samples to be transferred easily between ...
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Revolutionizing Cryo-Electron Microscopy: Prof. Carsten Sachse Wins Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant
Helmholtz Information congratulates: For his pioneering project in the field of cryo-electron microscopy Prof. Carsten Sachse from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Helmholtz Information has received ...
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Molybdenene – the “Metallic” Relative of Graphene
Two-dimensional materials like graphene show fascinating properties such as superconductivity, extraordinary strength and exotic quantum phenomena. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich from the Helmholtz Research ...
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Pushing electron microscopy to directly image quadrupolar strain fields at shear bands in metallic glasses
The techniques of scanning transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM) are central to the study of shear bands in metallic glasses. Recent research by scientists at ...
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Relatives discovered: Membrane proteins of cyanobacteria and higher organisms are structurally highly similar
Researchers from the Helmholtz Research Field Information have described a protein involved in the shaping of the cell membrane in cyanobacteria for the first ...
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A very special new research building
With the help of next-generation electron microscopes, a globally unique infrastructure for the characterization of materials is to be created in the “Ernst Ruska-Centrum ...
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RASER-MRI: Great benefits for medical diagnostics and quantum information technology
A team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich & KIT from the Helmholtz Research Field Information, RWTH Aachen University, and the United States has discovered ...