News tagged with protein network


Building a complete metabolic model

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other institutions have constructed ...


Aging: Worms, Flies & Yeast Are More Like Us than Previously Expected

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

When it comes to the aging process, yeast, nematode worms and fruit flies have more in common with humans than previously expected. In addition to highlighting the similarities between species, a large-scale human protein ...





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Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


Protein interaction network can respond Helicobacter pylori infection?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is a gram negative bacterium which infects about 50% of the world population. H pylori colonization causes a strong systemic immune response. Various tools have been employed to identify the rela ...


Systems properties of insulin signaling revealed

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created Jun 20, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team of Swedish researchers has characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling, described in an article published June 20th in the open-access journal PLoS Co ...


Research team maps cell interactions

Chemistry /

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins make up the machinery of the cell. Their interaction with each other is responsible for how the cell functions within a living organism. Intrigued by what these interactions may look like, scientists ...


Proteins in gel

Proteins in gel

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now ...


Statistics are insufficient for study of proteins' signal system

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created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ten years ago great attention was attracted by the discovery that it was possible to demonstrate signal transfer in proteins using statistical methods. In an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc ...


What's the difference between a human and a fruit fly?

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created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Fruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed a new way of estimating the total number ...


Kinetic Terahertz Absorption

Keeping an eye on the surroundings

Chemistry /

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Water is no passive spectator of biological processes; it is an active participant. Protein folding is thus a self-organized process in which the actions of the solvent play a key role. So far, the emphasis ...


Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape

Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, say Nowak et al. The study will appear in the September ...


Green Gel: Hybrid material made from polymers and proteins fluoresces and respnods to pH value and temperature

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created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ...



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