News tagged with biochemical reactions


Metabolic reactions: Less is more in single-celled organisms

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created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

All single-celled organisms are not alike. Or are they? A Northwestern University study has found a surprising similarity among four quite different organisms. The simplest organism, a bacterium called H. pylori, uses the sa ...





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New Web resource to improve crop engineering

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stanford, CA. The Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal ...


Toxic molecule may help birds 'see' north and south

Toxic molecule may help birds 'see' north and south

Biology / Other

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois report that a toxic molecule known to damage cells and cause disease may also play a pivotal role in bird migration. The molecule, superoxide, is proposed as a key ...


Building a complete metabolic model

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other institutions have constructed ...


Researchers First to 'See' Reactive Oxygen Species in Vital Enzyme

Researchers First to 'See' Reactive Oxygen Species in Vital Enzyme

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created Jan 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about ...


Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...


Scientists develop 'tricorder' sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 12, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

In an example of science imitating science fiction, U.S. researchers are developing a Star Trek-type sensor to detect bioweapons in sealed packages.


Comprehensive understanding of bacteria could lead to new insights into many organisms

Comprehensive understanding of bacteria could lead to new insights into many organisms

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other ...


Scientists Use Light to Control Proteins

Scientists Use Light to Control Proteins

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created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has discovered a way to use light to control certain proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions. "This is one ...


Researchers disrupt biochemical system involved in cancer, degenerative disease

Researchers disrupt biochemical system involved in cancer, degenerative disease

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created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Screening a chemical library of 200,000 compounds, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified two new classes that can be used to study and possibly manipulate a cellular pathway involved ...


Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...



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