News tagged with cell protein
Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2009 |
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If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...
The plant cell's corset
Sep 02, 2009 |
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We still have a lot to discover about the mechanism in plants that ensures cell growth in a specific direction. However it is clear that a structure of parallel protein tubes plays an important role. Simon Tindemans investigated ...
Making nanoparticles in artificial cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Two new construction manuals are now available for the world's smallest lamps. Based on these protocols, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have tailor-made nanoparticles that ...
Scientists block Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells. Using substances that block the activation of those pathways, they've ...
Study reveals intermediary steps of genetic encoding for the first time
Mar 27, 2009 |
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In a new study this week in Nature, researchers at Brandeis University and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, U.K.) for the first time shed light on a crucial step in the complex process by which human geneti ...
Nature-inspired technology creates engineered antibodies to fight specific diseases
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When viruses and bacteria invade the body, the immune system generates protective proteins called antibodies that bind to and destroy the invading pathogens.
Researchers identify new protein that triggers breast cancer
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Canadian researchers have identified a new protein in the progression of breast cancer. According to a recent study from the Université de Montréal and the University of Alberta, published in the Journal of ...
Studies offer guide as protein interaction mapping comes of age
Jan 06, 2009 |
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During the past 20 years, researchers have identified thousands of cell protein interactions, with the ultimate goal of inventorying all that occur within cells of various organisms - a comprehensive catalogue known as the ...
Landmark discovery of 'engine' that drives cell movement
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Oct 06, 2008 |
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This research by Thomas Leung, Ph.D., and his team in the GSK-IMCB Group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), under Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, is fundamental to the understanding ...
