News tagged with proteins function


Powerful online tool for protein analysis provided pro bono by Stanford geneticist

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists around the world may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online, that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary for their function.





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Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in the November 12 issue ...


Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Why can't chimps speak? Study links evolution of single gene to human capacity for language

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not?


Unravelling the pathology of dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Combination therapies to tackle multiple changes in the brain may be needed to combat the growing problem of dementia in ageing societies, according to a study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The st ...


Iowa State University researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Researchers discover key to vital DNA, protein interaction

Biology / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist ...


Of Mutants and Mechanisms: Researching Growth-Regulation Proteins That Underlie Cancer

Of Mutants and Mechanisms: Researching Growth-Regulation Proteins That Underlie Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

(PhysOrg.com) --A University of Arkansas researcher will study potential cancer-causing mutants of a protein involved in cell growth regulation, thanks to a supplemental grant from the National Institutes ...


1930s drug slows tumor growth

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...


Polycystins : proteins that regulate the cellular barometer

Polycystins : proteins that regulate the cellular barometer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What is the role of proteins called polycystins in patients with polycystic kidney disease? A team of researchers from CNRS and INSERM, led by Eric Honoré from the Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire ...


Gene therapy technique slows brain disease

Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French researchers have found. These findings appear in the 6 November 2009 issue ...


Metal Deficit in Mouse Brain Plaques Guides Direction of Human Alzheimer's Disease Research

Metal Deficit in Mouse Brain Plaques Guides Direction of Human Alzheimer's Disease Research

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Minuscule plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease contain much less metal than the brains of affected humans, according to a study conducted at the NSLS. This surprising finding ...


New discoveries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at UAB in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, have discovered the structure of the PPC descarboxilase (PPCDC) enzyme present in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a very important ...



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