News tagged with intracellular proteins
Harnessing Nanoparticles To Track Cancer Cell Changes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 03, 2009 |
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The more dots there are, the more accurate a picture you get when you connect them. Cancer researchers adopting that philosophy have developed a new imaging technology that could give scientists the ability to simultaneously ...
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Researchers identify mechanism that helps bacteria avoid destruction in cells
Oct 10, 2009 |
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Infectious diseases currently cause about one-third of all human deaths worldwide, more than all forms of cancer combined. Advances in cell biology and microbial genetics have greatly enhanced understanding of the cause and ...
How actin networks are actin'
Jan 02, 2008 |
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Dynamic networks of growing actin filaments are critical for many cellular processes, including cell migration, intracellular transport, and the recovery of proteins from the cell surface. In this week’s issue of the open-access ...
Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research
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Jan 25, 2009 |
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Remarkable new tools that spotlight individual cellular molecules are transforming biomedical research. Scientists at the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...
Single-molecule technique captures calcium sensor calmodulin in action
Aug 10, 2009 |
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It's well known that the protein calmodulin specifically targets and steers the activities of hundreds of other proteins - mostly kinases - in our cells, thus playing a role in physiologically important processes ...
Inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein is a Potential Anticancer Drug, Study Finds
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
New clue emerges for cellular damage in Huntington's disease
Nov 17, 2008 |
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"Huntington's disease presents an ideal vantage point to study neurodegenerative disease, because we know the misfolded protein that's responsible," says Martin Duennwald, formerly a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of ...
Finding expands understanding of neurons
Apr 19, 2007 |
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Many significant discoveries have enriched our exploration and understanding of the brain, including one of its most active cellular elements – neurons – since the brain was first described in 7,000 B.C. by Egyptian scholars.
Dartmouth researchers find new protein function
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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A group of Dartmouth researchers has found a new function for one of the proteins involved with chromosome segregation during cell division. Their finding adds to the growing knowledge about the fundamental ...
Forgotten and lost - when proteins 'shut down' our brain
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Which modules of the tau protein, in neurons of Alzheimer disease patients, may act in a destructive manner were investigated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...
Genome mapped for mite-borne typhus
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May 10, 2007 |
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Researches at Uppsala University, in collaboration with a Korean research team, have mapped and analyzed the genome for mite-borne typhus. A highly unexpected finding, now being published in the American journal Proceedings of ...
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