20 Oct 2020

ESRF scientific webinars

ESRF organises a series of webinars focused on research carried out at the ESRF and the scientific opportunities with the new Extremely Brilliant Source, ESRF-EBS. The first webinar will be on October 23 at 2:00 p.m. on the topic "High-resolution imaging with coherent X-rays" by Vincent Favre Nicolin, ESRF scientist.

19 Oct 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Michael Sattler (Helmholtz Center & Technical University Munich) and Robert Tycko (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on October 22th at 16:00CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Michael Sattler (Helmholtz Center & Technical University Munich): Dynamic regulation of client and cochaperone interactions of Hsp90
Robert Tycko (NIDDK, National Institutes of Health):Time-resolved solid state NMR of biomolecular self-assembly processes

15 Oct 2020

Webinar Open SPR Nicoya Alto Technology Presentation

On Wednesday October 22 a webinar Meet Alto: The world’s first digital high-throughput SPR system will be held. You are welcome to join the webinar via Zoom.

8 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded "for the development of genetic scissors”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was given jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing." Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

6 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 split and awarded "for the discovery that black hole formation" and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."

6 Oct 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Remco Sprangers (University of Regensburg) and Yoshitaka Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology & RIKEN)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on October 8th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Remco Sprangers (University of Regensburg): Beyond static structures: Linking conformational changes in enzymes with function
Yoshitaka Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology & RIKEN): Innovations in Protein SSNMR using Ultra-fast MAS and SSNMR Studies on New Polymorphs of Ab42 Fibrils

5 Oct 2020

ICMRBS YouTube Channel

International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems- ICMRBS – has launched a YouTube Channel, which presents the on-line lectures delivered within the series “Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance”.

5 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 awarded "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"

This year’s Nobel Prize is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, Hepatitis C virus.