Dr. David Barford's study unveils kinetochore dynamics using LUMICKS C-Trap, shedding light on chromosome segregation mechanisms
Chenlu Yu30 January 2024
What is an immune synapse? An immunological (or immune) synapse is the interface between a cancer and an immune cell , which is formed in a highly stable, organized manner. The immunological synapse is composed of all intercellular interactions taking place at the interface between the interacting pair, including TCR clustering, co-receptor binding, cell-cell adhesion…
Adrià Ferragut17 January 2024
CRISPR-Cas9 represents one of the most impactful discoveries in the field of genetic engineering and medicine of recent times. Its discovery catalyzed a paradigm shift in the treatment approach to many genetic diseases, paving the way to simple and effective gene therapy for a large class of diseases. In fact, the…
Chenlu Yu5 December 2023
Surprising insights into the roles of membranes and the actin cytoskeleton in cellular tension propagation – congratulations to all authors for successfully implementing a new and elegant assay with the C-Trap! There was a long-standing dispute in the scientific community about whether the actin cortex facilitates or impedes tension propagation…
Chenlu Yu28 November 2023
PICH (Plk1-interacting checkpoint helicase) belongs to the SNF2 family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers. However, what makes PICH unique is that it lacks a nucleotide-binding domain despite having a great affinity for bare DNA. Because of this molecular structure, it has been hypothesized that the binding of PICH to chromatinized bridges…
Chenlu Yu13 June 2023
We are excited to announce that LUMICKS is donating laboratory equipment for a summer course in Yobe, Nigeria, organized by the Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre (BioRTC) and Trend In Africa. We added various tools from our LUMICKS C-Trap® head quarters to the donation. Nigeria has a huge shortage…
Laura Triana26 May 2023
New insights into the regulation of transcription termination have been revealed by researchers from the lab of Shixin Liu at The Rockefeller University, New York, in a recent publication in Molecular Cell. Using the powerful LUMICKS C-Trap® technology that allows the direct observation of molecular mechanisms, they were able to…
Chenlu Yu31 March 2023
A recent study published in Nature Communications led by Shixin Liu from The Rockefeller University, New York, demonstrates how the C-Trap® can be used to directly visualize and observe molecular mechanisms in action, leading to better and faster insights into critical molecular processes. This study marks an important milestone for LUMICKS,…
Chenlu Yu28 March 2023
In two recent scientific publications, Johannes Stigler and his team from the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, set out to mechanistically describe the action of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) Complexes using LUMICKS’ C-Trap® technology. By performing dynamic single-molecule experiments coupled with real-time visualization, they were able…
Chenlu Yu9 March 2023
For a long time, scientists have been striving to understand how DNA-binding proteins interact with DNA substrates in real time at the single-molecule level, using a variety of imaging techniques and optical platforms. However, for most of these methods scientists always had to choose between studying purified proteins under specific…
Chenlu Yu28 February 2023
