Watching the production of new proteins in live cells
Columbia researchers make significant step in understanding and imaging protein synthesis.
Aug 26th, 2013
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Columbia researchers make significant step in understanding and imaging protein synthesis.
Aug 26th, 2013
Read moreResearchers report on a new software tool known as DeNovoGear, which uses statistical probabilities to help identify mutations and more accurately pinpoint their source and their possible significance for health.
Aug 26th, 2013
Read moreScientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) found that the structure of Chromosomes is supported by a kind of molecular skeleton, made of cohesin.
Aug 26th, 2013
Read moreIn an era of widespread genetic sequencing, the ability to edit and alter an organism's DNA is a powerful way to explore the information within and how it guides biological function.
Aug 23rd, 2013
Read moreResearch has discovered that combinations of bacteria commonly found in water pipes can form a biofilm which enables other potentially more harmful bacteria to thrive.
Aug 22nd, 2013
Read moreUnderstanding protein function on a genomic scale is now one of the central goals of biology. The project ENZYME MICROARRAYS ('An integrated technology for the deconvolution of complex biochemical systems, drug discovery and diagnostics') was aimed at developing new techniques to help better understand protein functioning.
Aug 20th, 2013
Read moreBiologist Peter Reddien seeks to understand planarians' famous ability to grow new body parts.
Aug 20th, 2013
Read moreA new study by Rice University biophysicists offers the most comprehensive picture yet of the molecular-level action of melittin, the principal toxin in bee venom. The research could aid in the development of new drugs that use a similar mechanism as melittin's to attack cancer and bacteria.
Aug 18th, 2013
Read moreHyperswarming, pathogenic bacteria have repeatedly evolved in a lab, and the good news is that they should be less of a problem to us than their less mobile kin. That's because those hyperswarmers, adorned with multiple whipping flagella, are also much worse at sticking together on surfaces in hard-to-treat biofilms. They might even help us figure out a way to develop anti-biofilm therapies for use in people with cystic fibrosis or other conditions.
Aug 15th, 2013
Read moreA sensor developed at A*STAR can detect bladder cancer cells and track tumor progression.
Aug 14th, 2013
Read moreA microchip that can identify human pathogens in a single test could revolutionize the diagnosis of infections.
Aug 14th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have now created the first simplified computer model of the process that forms the Fahraeus-Lindqvist layer in our blood -- a model that could help to improve the design of artificial platelets and medical treatments for trauma injuries and for blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and malaria.
Aug 13th, 2013
Read moreUsing human pluripotent stem cells and DNA-cutting protein from meningitis bacteria, researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and Northwestern University have created an efficient way to target and repair defective genes.
Aug 13th, 2013
Read moreScientists have discovered an efficient process for hydrogen biocatalysis. They developed semi-synthetic hydrogenases, hydrogen-generating enzymes, by adding the protein's biological precursor to a chemically synthesized inactive iron complex. From these two components, the biological catalyst formed spontaneously in a test tube.
Aug 12th, 2013
Read moreResearchers are making strides toward a set of rules to custom-design Lego-like viral capsid proteins for gene therapy.
Aug 12th, 2013
Read moreResearchers resolve how a plant steroid hormone makes plants grow.
Aug 8th, 2013
Read moreA scientific breakthrough by researchers at the University of Kent has revealed how vitamin B12/antipernicious anaemia factor is made - a challenge often referred to as 'the Mount Everest of biosynthetic problems'.
Aug 8th, 2013
Read moreThe method combines two high-tech laboratory techniques and allows the researchers to precisely poke holes on the surface of a single cell with a high-powered femtosecond laser and then gently tug a piece of DNA through it using optical tweezers, which draw on the electromagnetic field of another laser.
Aug 8th, 2013
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