NMR-based Structural Biology

A team from three Max Planck Institutes, the Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Göttingen, the University of Kiel, and the FAccTs GmbH used a chemical peculiarity of hydrogen to amplify the signals of magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In this way, the scientists were able to visualize previously unknown intermediate steps in the conversion of hydrogen. more

Lipids play an important role in the development of Alzheimer's dementia. However, more details about this process were previously unknown. A team of scientists from Göttingen, Jülich, and Düsseldorf has now determined the atomic structures of lipid-fibril complexes for the first time. (in German) more