News tagged with amino acid glycine
Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacterium
Researchers have long envied spiders' ability to manufacture silk that is light-weighted while as strong and tough as steel or Kevlar. Indeed, finer than human hair, five times stronger by weight than steel, and three times ...
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Against expectations, genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies have suggested that asthma patients with a specific genetic variation might not respond as well to certain treatments as those with a different variation. But a new study in this week's edition of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 24, 2009 |
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First discovery of life's building block in comet made
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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First proof of ferroelectricity in simplest amino acid
The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Artificial comet contains building blocks of life
The first molecules of life form naturally in comets, reveals a French-German study led by Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert at the Institut de Chimie de Nice and by Louis Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt at the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that, do nothing or ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Biocompatible quantum dot images tumors in live animals
Quantum dots, small semiconductor nanoparticles that fluoresce brightly with sharply defined colors, have tremendous promise as biomedical imaging agents except for one problem—most are made from potentially hazardous ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Avalanche of reactions at the origin of life
The origin of life is seen as the formation of the first biomolecules which may be subject to multiplication and further development. Hitherto it was unclear, which reactions could have triggered the evolution of this ur-metabolism. ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide
As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is struggling to deal with bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics. Less well known is the similar struggle in agribusiness to deal with weeds ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Organic chemistry: Amino acids made easy
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are 22 different amino acids and they can combine in a myriad ways to form a vast array of proteins. All amino acids except glycine are chiral molecules, ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Meteorites may have delivered first ammonia for life on earth: new study
Researchers have teased ammonia of a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica, and propose that meteorites may have delivered that essential ingredient for life to an early Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Kidney gene implicated in increased heart failure risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified the first DNA sequence variant common in the population that is not only associated with an increased risk of heart failure, but appears to play a role in causing it.
Jan 17, 2011 |
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Titan's haze could hold ingredients for life
Simulating possible chemical processes in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, a UA-led planetary research team found amino acids and nucleotide bases – the most important ingredients of life ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2010 |
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