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UMass Amherst Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemists Discover How Cells Create Stability During Critical DNA-to-RNA Information Transfers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemists believe they have for the first time explained how the main players in transcription -- RNA polymerase, RNA (red in illustration) and ...


Molecular anchor links the 2 inheritable diseases Fanconi anemia and Bloom's syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study establishes a molecular link that bridges two rare inherited disorders and explains why these diseases result in genetic instability. The research, published by Cell Press in the December 24th issue of the journal ...


Synergistic interaction enhances pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

Electronics /

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have identified a synergistic interaction that disrupts normal intracellular transport mechanisms and leads to the accumulation of neuron-damaging clumps of protein associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative ...


Pollution linked to hospitalizations for pneumonia in older adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older adults with long-term exposure to higher levels of pollution are at higher risk for hospitalization for pneumonia, according to researchers in Canada.


Study: Sticking with heart rehab boosts survival

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease who attended more cardiac rehabilitation sessions had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to die within four years than those who went to rehab less, researchers ...


Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven scientists have created a new enzyme with the potential to interfere with a key cell-wall component in plants, possibly leading to plants that are easier to "digest" and convert ...


Taming the flu: Researchers create map of interactions between flu virus and its human host

Taming the flu: Researchers create map of interactions between flu virus and its human host

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- There is no lack of worry this season over the flu, both the seasonal and H1N1 varieties, but there is a critical lack of understanding of the viruses that cause these illnesses. For years, ...


Scientists suggest certain genes boost chances for distributing variety of traits, drive evolution

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genes that don't themselves directly affect the inherited characteristics of an organism but leave them increasingly open to variation may be a significant driving force of evolution, say two Johns Hopkins scientists.


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence, secondary cancer among head and neck cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eighteen single-point genetic variations indicate risk of recurrence for early-stage head and neck cancer patients and their likelihood of developing a second type of cancer, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...



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