News tagged with molecular biophysics
Novel 'On-Off Switch' Mechanism Stops Cancer in Its Tracks
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, ...
Researchers Find Tools Needed To Build a Cellular Shredder
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have discovered a set of cellular chaperones needed to assemble a proteasome, the cellular workhorse that recycles proteins and is crucial for the existence of all eukaryotic cells.
In Ocean's Depths, Heat-Loving 'Extremophile' Evolves a Strange Molecular Trick
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Making its home near extreme temperatures of thermal vents on the ocean floor, the organism Methanopyrus kandleri harbors a molecular secret that intrigues evolutionary biologists and even ...
Team Visits Chile on Quest for Rare Fuel-Producing Microorganism
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.
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Mixing genomics and geography yields insights into life and environment
Jan 22, 2009 |
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In an upcoming issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale researchers used newly developed mathematical models to analyze huge amounts of data on physical characteristics such as temperature and salini ...
Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Research by an Iowa State University scientist suggests that cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins may lessen brain function.
New information about DNA repair mechanism could lead to better cancer drugs
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed new light on a process that fixes breaks in the genetic material of the body's cells. Their findings could lead to ways of enhancing chemotherapy ...
Iowa State researchers looking for catalyst that allows plants to produce hydrocarbons
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa State University's Jackie ...
Researchers put the bite on mosquitoes
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Jan 16, 2008 |
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Few things sting like a mosquito's bite--especially if that bite carries a disease such as malaria, yellow fever, Dengue fever or West Nile virus. But if researchers from The University of Arizona in Tucson ...
Researchers Track How Biology's Army Is Mobilized
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes an ...
Fluorescent-Probe in Worm Creates Real-Time 'View' of Cellular Stress
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University at Buffalo have created a mutant worm that changes color when it moves.
New imaging method lets scientists 'see' cell molecules more clearly
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Scientists have always wanted to take a closer look at biological systems and materials. From the magnifying glass to the electron microscope, they have developed ever-increasingly sophisticated imaging devices.
Decreased levels of binding gene affect memory and behavior
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Reducing the activity of a gene called FKBP12 in the brains of mice affected neuron-to-neuron communication (synapse) and increased both fearful memory and obsessive behavior, indicating the gene could provide a target for ...
Sticky antibodies block prion disease
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Antibodies that stick to a brain prion protein called PrP could be the key to treating prion diseases like variant CJD and preventing people accidentally exposed to prions from going on to ...
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