News tagged with glycoproteins
Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host's immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DN ...
Biomarkers detected for Chikungunya fever
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Three specific biomarkers provide an accurate indication of the severity of Chikungunya fever (CHIKF), which is emerging as a threat in South-East Asia, the Pacific and Europe, according to research conducted in Singapore.
Enzyme with a Sugar Antenna: Researchers achieve semisynthesis of homogeneous glycoproteins
Jan 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More than half of all human proteins, as well as many important pharmaceutical agents, are glycoproteins, which means that they contain sugar components. In general, natural glycoproteins ...
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Spider web glue spins society toward new biobased adhesives
Oct 21, 2009 |
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With would-be goblins and ghosts set to drape those huge fake spider webs over doorways and trees for Halloween, scientists in Wyoming are reporting on a long-standing mystery about real spider webs: It is ...
Artificial reddener: New synthetic route for EPO and other glycoprotein analogues
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Erythropoetin, abbreviated EPO, has gained a scandalous reputation as a doping agent for racing cyclists. The name is derived from the ancient Greek erythros "red" and poiein “to make”, a fitting designation ...
Cell surface profiling technique could yield cancer blood test
Apr 13, 2006 |
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A chemical profiling technique that has potential for detecting the onset of cancer at the cellular level has been developed by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of ...
Progress Toward an Antitumor Vaccine
Jun 12, 2007 |
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How can we induce the body to use its own weapon, the immune system, to battle cancer?
Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the ...
Detecting flu viruses in remote areas of the world
Jul 14, 2008 |
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Researchers in Ohio and New Mexico are reporting an advance in the quest for a fast, sensitive test to detect flu viruses — one that requires no refrigeration and can be used in remote areas of the world where ...
Researchers Shed Light on Esophageal Disease
Jun 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Canadian Light Source (CLS) staff scientist Luca Quaroni and Dr. Alan Casson from the University of Saskatchewan used the synchrotron's infrared microscope to identify tissue afflicted with ...
Researchers report full humanization of therapeutic proteins from yeast
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Sep 07, 2006 |
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Researchers at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth Medical School, and the biotechnology firm GlycoFi, Inc., report a significant advance in the production of therapeutic proteins. Reported in the Sept. 8 ...
UCLA Scientists Transform HIV Into Cancer-seeking Missile
Feb 17, 2005 |
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Camouflaging an impotent AIDS virus in new clothes enables it to hunt down metastasized melanoma cells in living mice, reports a UCLA AIDS Institute study in the Feb. 13 online edition of Nature Medicine. The scientists added ...
Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting to neu ...
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