The trunk of each 'Christmas tree' (a transcription unit) represents a DNA molecule; the tree branches (granular strings attached to the DNA) are RNA molecules that have been transcribed from the DNA.

which is more compact than normal DNA. Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of structural and molecular ...

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When scientists isolated the kinetoplast using density gradients and centrifugation, collected the DNA content on grids, and studied it under the electron microscope, they discovered that the kDNA ...

A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old ...

A single DNA nucleotide, the base unit of the human ... it much too small to be identified by even the most powerful electron microscope. So how, then, do researchers determine the sequence ...

Ultrafast electron microscopes, first developed in the 2000s, utilize lasers to generate pulsed electron beams, significantly enhancing the temporal resolution—the ability to observe changes in ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

There's three types of microscope: light, like this one here, and two types of electron microscopes, like those ones over there. Light microscopes use light and mirrors and can see things as small ...