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Built-in 'self-destruct timer' causes ultimate death of messenger RNA in cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA) -- arguably biology's most important molecule. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Controlling self-renewal of stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) are the first to establish a direct link between a conserved stem cell factor and the cell cycle regulation in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genes ex silico: Computer-designed virus yields phenotype expression benefits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene therapy is medicine’s rising star with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors – nonpathogenic parvoviruses – among the most promising supporting actors, due largely to their ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New mechanism in the regulation of human genes

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen and along with their colleagues from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Centre for Genomic Regulation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Biomolecular computer can autonomously sense multiple signs of disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the future, nano-sized computers implanted in the human body could autonomously scan for disease indicators, diagnose diseases, and control the release of the appropriate drugs. Although ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

A lack of structure facilitates protein synthesis

Having an easily accessible starting point on messenger RNA increases protein formation, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam have discovered.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists override errant form of genetic signaling for first time

In a new study published today in the journal Nature, scientists discovered an entirely new way to change the genetic code. The findings, though early, are significant because they may ultimately help researchers alter the co ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Of frogs, chickens and people: Highly conserved dual mechanism regulates both brain development, function

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered new details of an unusual biological mechanism in the brains of diverse species that not only helps regulate how their ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists observe single gene activity in living cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time observed the activity of a single gene in living cells. In an unprecedented study, published in the April 22 online edition ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny LNA-based compounds inhibit entire disease-associated microRNA families

A study published online in this week's Nature Genetics demonstrates that tiny Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA)-based compounds developed by Santaris Pharma A/S can inhibit entire disease-associated microRNA families. This provid ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gene knockout shows potential for diabetes-related heart failure

Silencing the TLR4 gene can stop the process which may lead to cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Translational Medicine carried out a series of in ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers achieve major breakthrough in cell reprogramming

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made so significant a leap forward in reprogramming human adult cells that HSCI co-director Doug Melton, who did not participate in the work, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nature's quality control in yeast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that in yeast cells, as in other cells, it’s the job of ribosomes to make proteins out of amino acids using information coded in the messenger RNA (mRNA).

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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RNA snippets control protein production by disabling mRNAs

Short pieces of RNA, called microRNAs, control protein production by causing the proteins' RNA templates (known as messenger RNA or mRNA) to be disabled by the cell, according to Whitehead Institute scientists.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new role of glypican-3 in hepatocellular carcinoma

A study group from Japan analyzed the association of glypican-3 (GPC3) expression with Wnt and other growth signaling molecules in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). They found altered expressions of various matrix metalloproteinases ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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