News tagged with diphosphate
New discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds
May 26, 2009 |
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Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato ...
Is there any association between COX2 and colon cancer?
May 22, 2009 |
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which are known to reduce the risk of colon cancer, act directly on cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) and reduce its activity. Population studies have found an association of inherited ...
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Rutgers-Camden developing enzyme function database
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Since the advent of the Human Genome Project an explosion of data has sent the science world scrambling. There is a growing demand to fine-tune genomic codes, which list the "ingredients for life," but do not adequately explain ...
Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...
Gene mutation increases drug toxicity, rejection risk in pediatric kidney transplants
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Screening for mutations in a gene that helps the body metabolize a kidney transplant anti-rejection drug may predict which children are at higher risk for side effects, including compromised white blood cell count or organ ...
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.
Blood vessel inhibitor shows promise against metastatic thyroid cancer
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Thyroid cancer that has spread to distant sites has a poor prognosis, but an experimental drug that inhibits tumor blood vessel formation can slow disease progression in some patients, a research team led by investigators ...
Researchers are first to simulate the binding of molecules to a protein
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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You may not know what it is, but you burn more than your body weight of it every day. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a tiny molecule that packs a powerful punch, is the primary energy source for most of your ...
New research alters concept of how circadian clock functions
Dec 13, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Cambridge have identified a molecule that may govern how the circadian clock in plants responds to environmental changes.
Scientists learn structure of enzyme in unusual virus
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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Biologists have determined the three-dimensional structure of an unusual viral enzyme that is required in the assembly of new viruses.
Good earth: Chemists show origin of soil-scented geosmin
Sep 16, 2007 |
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Brown University chemists have found the origins of an odor – the sweet smell of fresh dirt. In Nature Chemical Biology, the Brown team shows that the protein that makes geosmin – source of the good earth scent – has two si ...
Biologists learn structure of enzyme needed to power 'molecular motor'
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Mar 22, 2007 |
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Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head segment of ...
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