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How a protein ‘hunkers down’ to conserve energy
A visualisation made from nearly 100,000 electron microscope images has revealed the ingenious way a protein involved in muscle activity shuts itself down to conserve energy.
The protein helping to explain foot-and-mouth's infectiousness
Scientists have conducted a ‘molecular dissection’ of a part of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease, to try and understand why the pathogen is so infectious.
Reducing single-use plastic in Laboratories
Single-use plastic consumption in the Leeds Protein Production Facility (PPF), a core research facility within the Faculty of Biological Sciences, is being reduced.
Biological Sciences professor recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Professor Sheena Radford, the Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, has been honoured with an OBE, for her research at the frontiers of molecular biology.
The intricate protein architecture linked to disease
Scientists have for the first time identified the structure of a protein fibre linked to early-onset type 2 diabetes.