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Researchers demonstrate that messenger RNA are lost in translation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

'Tamed' virus wipes out cancer cells safely

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

New technique used to profile anthrax genome

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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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created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...