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Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.
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Researchers Find Shared Motif in Membrane Transport Proteins Found in Plants, Bacteria
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas researchers have characterized a membrane receptor protein and its binding mechanism from chloroplasts in plants and determined that it shares a commonly shaped binding ...
Membrane complexes take flight
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Against currently held dogma, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have revealed that the interactions within membrane complexes can be maintained intact in the vacuum of a mass spectrometer. Their research ...
Membrane complexes take flight
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Against currently held dogma, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have revealed that the interactions within membrane complexes can be maintained intact in the vacuum of a mass spectrometer. Their research ...
New nanoparticles could revolutionize therapeutic drug discovery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 25, 2009 |
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A revolutionary new protein stabilisation technique has been developed by scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council which could lead to 30 per cent more proteins being available as potential ...
Sticky protein helps reinforce fragile muscle membranes
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A new study by scientists at the University of Iowa shows why muscle membranes don't rupture when healthy people exercise.
'Holy powder' ingredient makes membranes behave for better health
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Revered in India as "holy powder," the marigold-colored spice known as turmeric has been used for centuries to treat wounds, infections and other health problems. In recent years, research into the healing powers of turmeric's ...
Liquid or solid? Charged nanoparticles in lipid membrane decide
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Like water and ice cubes mixed in a glass, a group of organic compounds called lipids can coexist as liquid and solid in membranes. This patchiness in phospholipid membranes is fundamental to their use as biomolecules and ...
Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Get ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in Nature, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues report that microscopic plants ...
T-cell 'nanotubes' may explain how HIV virus conquers human immune system
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 14, 2008 |
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String-like connections found between T-cells could be important to how HIV spreads between cells in the human immune system, according to new research published online yesterday in Nature Cell Biology. The ne ...
European membrane expertise to focus on new treatments for human diseases
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A new 15 million Euro project led by the University of Leeds aims to find novel treatments for many human diseases by bringing together the leading European experts in membrane proteins.
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