What STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY means: The study of the structure of large biomolecules like proteins and nucleic acids, how the structure relates to the function of the molecule, and how alterations in structure affect function. Various methods such as crystallography are used to gain information about the structure of a molecule. This information is often analyzed with bioinformatics techniques to obtain or solve the structure of the molecule.
- Definition Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM):
- Dictionary high resolution microscopy designed to capture extremely clear images of cells and molecules, even when they are moving quickly. The sophisticated technique uses a number of filters and other light structural biology.
- Definition Spectroscopy:
- Dictionary the branch of science concerned with the investigation and measurement of spectra produced when matter interacts with or emits electromagnetic radiation structural biology.
- Definition Scaffold:
- Dictionary A structure of artificial or natural materials on which tissue is grown to mimic a biological process outside the body or to replace a disease or damaged tissue inside the body structural biology.
- Definition Stem Cell:
- Dictionary cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to more of the same cell type indefinitely, and has the ability to differentiate into many other types of cells that form the structural biology.
