News tagged with seminal proteins

AIDS virus changes in semen make it different than in blood

The virus that causes AIDS may undergo changes in the genital tract that make HIV-1 in semen different than what it is in the blood, according to a study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Male fruit flies change to gain reproductive edge

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to wooing females, males of all species -- even fruit flies -- try to gain a competitive edge.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Trudeau Institute reports new approach to treating Listeria infections

Research underway at the Trudeau Institute could lead to new treatments for people sickened by Listeria and other sepsis-causing bacteria. Dr. Stephen Smiley's laboratory has published a study in the scientific journal Infection an ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Mosquitoes can't spot a spermless mate

A female mosquito cannot tell if the male that she has mated with is fertile or 'spermless' and unable to fertilise her eggs, according to a new study from scientists at Imperial College London.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Permeon reveals discovery of Intraphilins as new approach to intracellular biologic drugs

Permeon Biologics, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of intracellular protein biologics, today announced the discovery of an entirely new class of naturally occurring human supercharged proteins called ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Control of gene expression: Mediator MED26 shifts an idling polymerase into high gear

Look up "transcription"—the copying of a gene's DNA into RNA intermediaries—in any old molecular biology text book, and it all seems very simple: RNA polymerase II, the enzyme that catalyzes the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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A role for glia in the progression of Rett syndrome

A paper published online today in Nature reveals that glia play a key role in preventing the progression of the most prominent Rett Syndrome symptoms displayed by mouse models of the disease: lethality, irregular breathing and ap ...

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Learning lessons from an HIV cure

For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...

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created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

A better way to see molecular structures

In laboratories at MIT and around the world, scientists are deciphering the molecular structures of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes, and many other disorders. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Study suggests enzyme crucial to DNA replication may provide potent anti-cancer drug target

(PhysOrg.com) -- An enzyme essential for DNA replication and repair in humans works in a way that might be exploited as anti-cancer therapy, say researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and Lawrence Berkeley ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Proteins may affect behavior and physiology of female mosquitoes

Researchers have identified 93 seminal fluid proteins and 52 sperm male-derived proteins that include candidates likely to affect the behavior and physiology of female mosquitoes of the species, Aedes aegypti. The results ...

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Researchers unravel protein's elusive role in embryo and disease development

Reporting in Nature, scientists from Thomas Jefferson University have determined that a single protein called FADD controls multiple cell death pathways, a discovery that could lead to better, more targeted autoimmune diseas ...

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