News tagged with metabolic network
Malaria parasite zeroes in on molecule to enhance its survival
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from Princeton University and the Drexel University College of Medicine has found that the parasite that causes malaria breaks down an important amino acid in its quest to adapt and thrive within the ...
Metabolic reactions: Less is more in single-celled organisms
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Dec 05, 2008 |
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All single-celled organisms are not alike. Or are they? A Northwestern University study has found a surprising similarity among four quite different organisms. The simplest organism, a bacterium called H. pylori, uses the sa ...
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New evidence on the robustness of metabolic networks
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Sep 04, 2008 |
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Biological systems are constantly evolving in ways that increase their fitness for survival amidst environmental fluctuations and internal errors. Now, in a study of cell metabolism, a Northwestern University research team ...
Building a complete metabolic model
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other institutions have constructed ...
Comprehensive understanding of bacteria could lead to new insights into many organisms
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other ...
Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...
New Web resource to improve crop engineering
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Stanford, CA. The Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology announced the launch of a new web-based resource that promises to help researchers around the world meet increasing demands for food production, animal ...
Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...
Glucose intolerance in pregnancy associated with postpartum cardiovascular risk
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Women who have gestational glucose intolerance (a condition less severe than gestational diabetes) exhibit multiple cardiovascular risk factors as early as three months after birth, according to a new study accepted for publication ...
Systems properties of insulin signaling revealed
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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A team of Swedish researchers has characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling, described in an article published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Co ...
Scientists identify 2 distinct Parkinson's networks
Jul 09, 2007 |
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The disease that causes tremors, rigidity and slowed movements in a million Americans also targets another brain network that regulates cognitive thought and the ability to carry out everyday tasks.
Could Dr. House be replaced by a computer?
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Scientists know that different normal and diseased tissues behave differently. But a method that tells them just how they do so may one day give medical science a new way to fight obesity, hypertension, diabetes and other ...
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