News tagged with adenosine monophosphate


Researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. ...


New insight into an old reaction: Adenylylation regulates cell signaling

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study reveals the importance of adenylylation in the regulation of cell signaling from bacteria to higher organisms. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, provid ...





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Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...


Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances ...


Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB

Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are making breakthroughs in studying the latent form of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This work could revolutionise the treatment of TB.


Undergrad researchers lay groundwork for drug addiction remedy

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sarah Steele and Langtian "Ren" Yuan were both self-admittedly inexperienced Duke freshmen in the spring of 2006. But then they followed helpful directions of an assistant chemistry professor, added their own patience and ...


Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.


That 'four hour erection': new discovery may help prevent a complication of priapism

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

For men coping with painful erections lasting for long periods of time, or priapism, new research published online in The FASEB Journal offers hope. That's because researchers from the United States and China show that t ...


Migrating Microbes

Migrating Microbes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With every spacecraft that leaves Earth, millions of microbes hitch a ride into space. As astrobiologists search for life in other worlds, preventing forward and back contamination remains a key priority.


SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the words "bubble boy" and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, ...


Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

If you spend an afternoon walking along the muddy shore of Mono Lake, with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada mountains looming majestically in the background, you’ll no doubt discover, as others have ...


Fluorescent co-enzyme is an early indicator for breast cancer

Fluorescent co-enzyme is an early indicator for breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Think back to high-school biology and you may recall some basics about cellular respiration: how organelles called mitochondria function like little power stations, converting nutrients from ...



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