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The Astbury Centre
Our members address major questions associated with biological mechanisms in areas as diverse as membrane proteins; protein folding and assembly; viruses; and motor proteins. The Astbury Centre hosts 4-year PhD programmes funded by the Wellcome Trust and BBSRC that equip students with the wide range of expertise that may be used to address fundamental biological questions.
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New Mass Spectrometry Frontiers
For the first time, academics in the Astbury Centre have recorded the highest mass-to-charge ratios ever measured on an Orbitrap machine. But how did they do it? A recently developed technique, called electron capture charge reduction, reduces charge in biomolecular structures. It’s now offering huge promise for analysing larger sized proteins – a current limitation...
Pioneering disease research gets major investment boost
University of Leeds has received a grant of £1.1million to enable world leading research into disease. The grant, which has been awarded by the Wolfson Foundation, will be used to fund high-resolution microscopes which use fluorescent dyes to see into cells in exquisite detail. This new equipment will enable scientists to understand the structure of...
Unlocking the power of nanopores
Scientists take one step closer to uncovering new sensing technology. Scientists at University of Leeds are part of an international collaboration that has described a new approach to designing proteins from scratch. The approach uses Transmembrane β-barrel pores (TMBs), nanosized proteins which are extensively used for single-molecule DNA and RNA sequencing –an analysis method that...