New family of bacterial cell wall builders: Discovery overturns dogma, revealing potential target
Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a new family of proteins that virtually all bacteria use to build and maintain their cell walls.
Harvard Medical School scientists have identified a new family of proteins that virtually all bacteria use to build and maintain their cell walls.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2016
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Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered new insights into how the human genome gets through the daily grind with the help of RNA-binding proteins, in a discovery which could ultimately lead ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 26, 2016
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If he ever gives a TED talk, Jeremy Sanford may have to come up with a better name for the protein he's been studying, which appears to play an important role in driving the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells. For ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 19, 2016
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MIT researchers have devised a new set of proteins that can be customized to bind arbitrary RNA sequences, making it possible to image RNA inside living cells, monitor what a particular RNA strand is doing, and even control ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 25, 2016
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Everyone preparing for the London Marathon likely knows that to perform their best during the event, they need to rest up now. Research at the Babraham Institute just published in the journal Science describes a new mechanism ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2016
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Studying sequence and function of DNA has been in the focus of life sciences for decades, but now the interest of many researchers has turned to the RNA. Today, many scientists believe that RNA molecules, together with a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 4, 2016
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a second role for a class of RNA-binding proteins, revealing new insights about neurological diseases and conditions associated with this protein such as autism, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2016
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In bacteria, toxin-antitoxin systems consist of a set of two closely linked genes. Situated on the same chromosome, they encode both a protein 'poison' and a counteracting 'antidote'. Under normal conditions, the antitoxin ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2016
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have taken a step closer to understanding the mechanism that leads to the fusion of egg and sperm at fertilisation. Using the technique X-ray crystallography, they have determined ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 8, 2016
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In a new study published today in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the University of Surrey have uncovered a collection of important proteins that carry out and regulate critical biological processes. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 23, 2015
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