News tagged with amino acid sequence
Scientists discover potential new drug delivery system
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. The results are published ...
Genes and smoking play role in rheumatoid arthritis
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Recent genetic studies have revealed several new sites of genes that are risk factors for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The strongest association with anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA)-positive RA (ACPAs ...
Our brains make their own marijuana: We're all pot heads deep inside
Apr 20, 2009 |
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U.S. and Brazilian scientists have just proven that one of Bob Dylan's most famous lines—"everybody must get stoned"— is correct. That's because they've discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana ...
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New tool helps researchers identify DNA patterns of cancer, genetic disorders
May 19, 2009 |
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A new tool will help researchers identify the minute changes in DNA patterns that lead to cancer, Huntington's disease and a host of other genetic disorders. The tool was developed at North Carolina State ...
Relationships in rank and file: Better sequence searches of genes and proteins
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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Since the sequencing of the human genome eight years ago, enormous progress has been made in analyzing and understanding it. Nevertheless, the function of most human genes is still barely understood. An important first step ...
Natural-born divers and the molecular traces of evolution
Jun 29, 2009 |
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An aquatic lifestyle imposes serious demands for the organism, and this is true even for the tiniest molecules that form our body. When the ancestors of present marine mammals initiated their return to the oceans, their ...
Model suggests how life's code emerged from primordial soup
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1953, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the primitive Earth, connected the flasks with rubber tubes and introduced some electrical sparks as a stand-in for lightning. ...
Study reveals surprising details of the evolution of protein translation
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Aug 12, 2008 |
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A new study of transfer RNA, a molecule that delivers amino acids to the protein-building machinery of the cell, challenges long-held ideas about the evolutionary history of protein synthesis.
Powerful online tool for protein analysis provided pro bono by Stanford geneticist
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function.
Biologists convert protein sequences into classical music
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May 16, 2007 |
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UCLA molecular biologists have turned protein sequences into original compositions of classical music.
Researchers study signaling networks that set up genetic code
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois have identified and visualized the signaling pathways in protein-RNA complexes that help set the genetic code in all organisms. The ...
Core tenets of the 'histone code' are universal
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Sep 06, 2007 |
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In one of biology’s most impressive engineering feats, specialized proteins called histones package some six-and-a-half feet of human DNA into a nucleus that averages just five microns in diameter.
Migration from Africa left mark on European genetic diversity
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Feb 20, 2008 |
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Human migration from Africa to Europe more than 30,000 years ago appears to have left a mark on the genes of Europeans today.
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