News tagged with heat shock proteins


Structure of protective protein in the eye lens revealed

Structure of protective protein in the eye lens revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins prevent these proteins from aggregating and clumping. If this protective function fails, the lens blurs and ...


New biosensor for most serious form of Listeria food poisoning bacteria

New biosensor for most serious form of Listeria food poisoning bacteria

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Indiana are reporting development of a new biosensor for use in a faster, more sensitive test for detecting the deadliest strain of Listeria food poisoning bacteria. That microbe ...





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A window that washes itself?

A (nano-) window that washes itself?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 8

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, detail ...


Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...


'Safety valve' protects photosynthesis from too much light

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Photosynthetic organisms need to cope with a wide range of light intensities, which can change over timescales of seconds to minutes. Too much light can damage the photosynthetic machinery and cause cell death. Scientists ...


New cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, ...


New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A powerful new breast cancer treatment could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer ...


New explanation for nature's hardiest life form

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost ...


The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.


A 'spoonful of sugar' makes the worms' life span go down

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also b ...


Inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein is a Potential Anticancer Drug, Penn Study Finds

Inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein is a Potential Anticancer Drug, Study Finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like yoga for office drones, cells do have coping strategies for stress. Heat, lack of nutrients, oxygen radicals - all can wreak havoc on the delicate internal components of a cell, potentially ...


Research May Help Plants, Humans Survive Stress, Disease

Research May Help Plants, Humans Survive Stress, Disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technology to analyze gene expression at the level of different cell types offers new insights in the ways that plants and animals react to the environment and how they change when they ...



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