News tagged with peptide transduction domain


The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, ...





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Adenoviral vector specifically targeted to EphA2 receptor in pancreatic cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with poor prognosis. This warrants the development of novel therapies including gene therapy. However, clinical studies have demonstrated poor efficacy of adenoviral gene therapy ...


Scientists characterize protein structure of environmentally friendly bacteria

Scientists characterize protein structure of environmentally friendly bacteria

Biology /

created May 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land ...


Quantum dot research could lead to medical advances

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working with atomic-scale particles known as quantum dots, a Missouri University of Science and Technology biologist hopes to develop a new and better way to deliver and monitor proteins, medicine, DNA and ...


Delivering medicine directly into a tumor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research at University of California, Santa Barbara have identified a peptide (a chain of amino acids) that specifically recognizes and penetrates cancerous tumors but not normal ...


A hairpin to fight HIV

Chemistry /

created Nov 02, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses it as a blueprint to produce more viral proteins.


A Hairpin To Fight HIV

Chemistry /

created Oct 29, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

When a host cell is infected with HIV, the virus brings its own genetic material into the host cell. This cell then replicates, reads the viral RNA, and uses it as a blueprint to produce more viral proteins. Complete viruses ...


Egypt applies for first Arabic domain name

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Egypt's technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name.


Nanoscale piezoresponse of ferroelectric domains

Highlight: Nanoscale piezoresponse of ferroelectric domains

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

The first fundamental studies of the dependence of ferroelectric domain configuration and switching behavior on the shape of epitaxial BiFeO3 (BFO) nanostructures has been reported by users from Northwestern ...


A tricky tumor virus

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human-pathogenic virus which belongs to the herpes virus family. Almost every adult carries EBV inside. With an infestation rate of more than 90 %, EBV is one of the most successful human viruses. ...


Geneticist reveals molecular view of key epigenetic regulator

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Michael Kobor reported the structure and function of a key player in regulating chromatin in yeast and humans.



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