News tagged with cell assembly
Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organize cells
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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The power of magnetism may address a major problem facing bioengineers as they try to create new tissue -- getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth of blood vessels to nourish ...
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Scientists deconstruct cell division
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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The last step of the cell cycle is the brief but spectacularly dynamic and complicated mitosis phase, which leads to the duplication of one mother cell into two daughter cells. In mitosis, the chromosomes ...
Researchers witness assembly of molecules critical to protein function
Jun 16, 2008 |
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A Virginia Tech research group lead by two biochemistry graduate students has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in ...
Portuguese scientists working on chromosome segregation
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cell Bi ...
Why retroviruses such as HIV love their neighbors
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Retroviruses such as HIV that are already within cells are much more easily transmitted when they are next to uninfected cells than if they are floating free in the bloodstream.
Using life's building blocks to control nanoparticle assembly
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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Using DNA, the molecule that carries life’s genetic instructions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are studying how to control both the speed of nanoparticle assembly and the structure ...
New research provides dynamic visualization of simplest circadian clock
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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Scientists have acquired a more dynamic picture of events that underlie the functions of a bacterial biological clock. New research published online March 13th by Cell Press in the journal Molecular Cell, shows how the si ...
Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...
RNA on the move
Nov 26, 2009 |
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In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...
Hoping for a fluorescent basket case: How HIV is assembled and released from infected cells
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Although recent advances have raised hopes that a protective vaccine can be developed, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health problem. Much has been learned about HIV-1, the virus that causes ...
Researchers gain new insight on wonder of cell division
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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Biologists have discovered a mechanism that is critical to cytokinesis -- nature's completion of mitosis, where a cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
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