Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas debuted STReM—super temporal-resolved microscopy—last month (October 24). A phase-manipulation technique, STReM allows the researchers to resolve the dynamics of fast-moving proteins, they reported. The team published its results in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
This advance “is important because in my lab, for instance, we consider the dynamics of proteins inside living cells with the understood limitation that we are mainly restricted to following membrane-bound or DNA-bound molecules,” Julie Biteen of the University of Michigan, who was not involved in the research, wrote in an email. “A method like this [new one] would allow us to measure and understand the fastest motions of, for instance, free proteins.”
A team led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has identified metabolites that microbes in the mouse gut use to communicate with—and affect epigenetic changes in—tissues elsewhere in ...
