Imaging: Publication in Science Advances

How can molecular structures be analysed when the resolution of the techniques available is not sufficient? Researchers from the fields of physics, chemistry and medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have combined and further developed various microscopic and spectroscopic techniques in order to examine a protein arrangement in the cell membrane that is important for “programmed cell death”. In the scientific journal Science Advances, they now describe the circumstances under which the CD95 receptor – which is responsible for cell death – reacts.