News tagged with adenine
Naturally fluorescent molecules may serve as cancer biomarker
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Excess amounts of a naturally fluorescent molecule found in all living cells could serve as a natural biomarker for cancer, according to bioengineers.
Stable Thanks to Dynamics - DNA Component Resists UV Radiation
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer simulations have, for the first time, allowed scientists to examine in detail the processes that help to ensure the stability of DNA when exposed to UV light. The findings, ...
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Researcher Presents Origin-Of-Life Theory for Young Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2007 |
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Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ...
Researcher presents origin-of-life theory for young Earth, supports life on other planets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2007 |
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Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known – oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ...
Researchers find pathway and enzyme unique to tularemia organism
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Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers are closer to developing therapies to combat the deadly tularemia infection, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' online Early Edition.
How did chemical constituents essential to life arise on primitive Earth?
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Oct 30, 2007 |
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Experiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building blocks of DNA, the key component of all life forms. These processes might have taken place on primitive earth, but ...
Adenine ‘Tails’ Make Tailored Anchors for DNA
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single ...
Researchers devise a fast and sensitive way to detect ricin
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism ...
Unraveling the physics of DNA's double helix
Jul 12, 2007 |
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Researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have uncovered a missing link in scientists' understanding of the physical forces that give DNA its famous double helix shape.
Evolution of symbiosis
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Apr 10, 2007 |
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The aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum depends on a bacterial symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola, for amino acids it can't get from plants. The aphid, in turn, provides the bacterium with energy and carbon as well as shelter ...
Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets ...
Researchers make first direct observation of 3-D molecule folding in real time
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Feb 14, 2008 |
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All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, ...
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