News tagged with mrna
Researchers demonstrate that messenger RNA are lost in translation
Aug 23, 2009 |
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine assistant professor in the Center for RNA Molecular Biology, Jeff Coller, Ph.D., and his team discovered that messenger RNA (mRNA) predominately degrade on ribosomes, fundamentally ...
The ends of mRNAs may prevent the beginnings of cancer
Aug 20, 2009 |
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The tail ends of cellular protein templates, regions often thought relatively inconsequential, may actually play a role in preventing normal cells from becoming cancerous.
New location found for regulation of RNA fate
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Thousands of scientists and hundreds of software programmers studying the process by which RNA inside cells normally degrades may soon broaden their focus significantly.
New piece found in colorectal cancer puzzle
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Prostasin, a relatively unknown protease enzyme expressed in most epithelial cells, may play a role in the genesis of colorectal cancer. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer have associated a reduction in the ...
A novel marker of colorectal carcinoma
May 22, 2009 |
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The colorectal cancer is thought to be resulted from a combination of environmental factors, diet, lifestyle, chronic inflammation and accumulation of specific genetic alterations. The pathogenesis and development of colorectal ...
'Tamed' virus wipes out cancer cells safely
May 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Oxford University have tamed a virus so that it attacks and destroys cancer cells but does not harm healthy cells. The research funded by Cancer Research UK is published in the ...
Genetic switch potential key to new class of antibiotics
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Researchers have determined the structure of a key genetic mechanism at work in bacteria, including some that are deadly to humans, in an important step toward the design of a new class of antibiotics, according to an accelerated ...
Is transforming growth factor-beta involved in intestinal wound healing?
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Migration of colonic lamina propria fibroblasts (CLPF) plays an important role during the progression of fibrosis and fistulae in Crohn's disease. Transforming growth factor- beta (TGF- beta) is involved in the regulation ...
New technique used to profile anthrax genome
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used a new approach, known as RNA-Seq, to profile the gene expression of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Their study, published ...
Aphids borrowed bacterial genes to play host
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Most aphids host mutualistic bacteria, Buchnera aphidicola, which live inside specialized cells called bacteriocytes. Buchnera are vital to the aphids well being as they provide essential amino acids that are scarce in its ...
Researchers identify another potential biomarker
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that a recently discovered class of molecule called microRNA (miRNAs), regulate the gene expression changes in airway cells that occur with smoking ...
